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Mitchell Funk
Chrysler Building Points Towards the Heavens

2022

About the Item

As it soars above smaller buildings, The Chrysler Building spire resolutely points to the heavens. The flat white sky emphasizes the spire's silhouette, allowing it to dominate the composition. To the extreme left, a cross is perched atop a church. Clearly, the Chrysler Building was conceived and executed as a secular building, but when juxtaposed with a cross, one can not help but consider its divine characteristics. Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed. printed latiner, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper 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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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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A single house juts out into a vast sky and sea of Long Island. The image takes inspiration from the epic 19th-century paintings and the American West with vast unending sky and untamed landscapes. Yet the composition is quite radical and evocative of the simple shapes of Color Field painter Clyfford Still...
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Unexpected Billboard from The High Line Chelsea
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An unexpected detail of a green billboard is shown occupying the full lower left-hand quadrant of a city scene composition. It was shot by street photographer Mitchell Funk from The High Line...
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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