Mitchell Funk

Surreal Blue Landscape

1978

This image from the imagination of Mitchell Funk was the cover photograph for Popular Photography Magazine, May 1978, It is signed and numbered on lower right, as well as titled ...

Mitchell Funk was a pioneer of Sci-fi photography. This work was does for a promotional campaign for Omni Magazine. Signed and dated on lower righ...

Historically , newsstand magazines have used a standard set of practices when it came to choosing their cover image. Their goal was to use an image that people could instantly relate to. The idea being, if an image pops off the page it will attract more attention and then generate more newsstand sales. For editors, choosing a cover was first a marketing decision and then an aesthetic one. That is why most magazine covers and (that includes art magazines) pretty much looked the same. They used familiar images, mostly of celebrities, beauty people or news items of that would beckon and aggressively reach out to the prospect. In this Modern Photography Cover of August 1983, they chose a radical departure. They used an image that was the opposite of the norm. Mitchell Funk’s Graphic Surreal Landscape breaks the rules of formula magazine cover art...

Historically , newsstand magazines have used a standard set of practices when it came to choosing their cover image. Their goal was to use a image that people could instantly relate to. The idea being, if an image pops off the page it will attract more attention and then generate more newsstand sales. For editors, choosing a cover was first a marketing decision and then an aesthetic one. That is why most magazine covers and (that includes art magazines) pretty much looked the same. They used familiar images, mostly of celebrities, beauty people or news items of that would beckon and aggressively reach out to the prospect. In this Modern Photography Cover of August 1983, they chose a radical departure. Their cover image that was the opposite of the norm. Mitchell Funk’s Graphic Surreal Landscape...

'Blue' by Stuart Möller A landscape seeped in blues is reflected in a swimming pool filled with water in Marbella, Spain. An exquisite signed Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print...

Blue The sun filters through from behind some trees reflected in a pool. by Stuart Möller Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up ...

Blue Signed Limited Edition The sun filters through from behind some trees reflected in a pool. Stuart Möller paper size - 60 x 40 " / 152 x 101 cm Signed and numbered by artist o...

Also available 50 x 70 in. $9,500, edition of 10. Christine Matthäi was born in Germany. She lives and works between Shelter Island, New York, Germany and the Bahamas. Her LIGHT an...