Mitchell Funk

Light Train

2014

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...

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...

Pioneering SciFi photographer Mitchell Funk experiments with altered realms of reality by juxtaposing two landscapes of unnatural color to form a never-before-seen original vision. A single silhouetted figure looks out on a day-glow yellow sea leading to a dreamscape of trees. The yellow of water is picked up in the trees to unify the different perspectives. Published Popular Photography Magazine, February 1976...

"Transfer" 20"x30" photograph edition 2/5 (unframed) please inquire about additional editions and availability This photograph is from Stephen Mallon's series entitled:...

' Train ' by Ian Sanderson - Talgo, Spain Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2013 - Edition 1/5 This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Ph...

' Train ' by Ian Sanderson - Talgo, Spain Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2013 - Edition 1/5 This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Ph...

"Commute" 20"x30" photograph edition 2/5 (unframed) please inquire about additional editions and availability This photograph is from Stephen Mallon's series entitled: "Next ...