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Mitchell Funk
Heard of Elephants on African Plane at Sunset

1984

$5,500
£4,188.85
€4,828.26
CA$7,694.46
A$8,648.07
CHF 4,503.69
MX$105,181.89
NOK 57,630.17
SEK 54,650.39
DKK 36,034.94
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Silhouetted elephants trek across a desolate African landscape are backlit by a soulful sunset. Color photographer Mitchell Funk pushes the boundaries of animal portraiture with a precise composition rendered with light as magical as the animals themselves. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, numbered 3/15, dated and titled, and lower right recto. Other sizes are available, and the fine art photograph is unframed and printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk brings the compositional precision of studio photography to nature photography. Unlike most nature photographers, Funk is an abstractionist while being a documentarian. Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography" In 1970, he participated in one the first " Color Photography" shows at a major museum. Brooklyn Museum, show "Images en Couleur" . 1971 Included he was included in the visionary book "Frontiers of Photography" Time Life. Color ! American Photography Transformed. Amon Carter Museum. He has had more than 50 Photography Magazine Covers and has had covers on Newsweek, Fortune, New York Magazine and Life Magazine among others

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