Mitchell Funk

Stonehenge and Eclipse with Pink Sci-Fi Glow

1981

"Surreal Desert Landscape" is an example of Mitchell Funk's early work. It depicts Monument Valley in an unexpected way. It's 1976 and color photography was not even seriously acknow...

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...

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...

Aesthetically, this image is generations ahead of it's time. It looks so contemporary but was done in the early 1980's in the pre-digital ear. It was a Modern Photography Cover 198...

Stonehenge STONEHENGE SALISBURY WILTSHIRE 1977 All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold. paper size - 24 x 19" / 61 x 48 cm signed a...

Stonehenge Model By Arthur Steel Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm Silver Gelatin Print 1970 (printed later) unframed hand signed limited edition of ...

Stonehenge Model By Arthur Steel Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm Silver Gelatin Print 1970 (printed later) unframed hand signed limited edition of ...

Signed lower left, 'R. Gallon' for Robert Gallon (English, 1845-1925) and painted circa 1880. This well-listed landscape and seascape painter maintained a studio in St John's Wood, ...