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Mitchell Funk
Black Hippie Red Sombrero n' Flute Central Park Music Festival 60's Celebration

1969

$6,500
£4,932.05
€5,639.36
CA$9,078.74
A$10,094.32
CHF 5,270.70
MX$122,872.46
NOK 67,251.80
SEK 63,011.73
DKK 42,087.57
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A black hippie enthroned in a majestic red sombrero is captured playing a flute at a Central Park music festival in 1969. This was the same year the youth "counterculture" celebrated its seminal event, Woodstock, which was just 100 miles upriver. Mainstream society would be changed forever with the arts, fashion, and music from a subculture that celebrated love, experimentation, and individuality. Here, we see a groovy young black man playing a wooden flute. With a long lens, Photographer Mitchell Funk isolated him from the crowd so that his silhouette and redness of his sombrero would stand out with graphic simplicity. The video is coming up light. Use the still images as a reference for color. Signed,dated and numbered lower right, 2/15, Unframed, printed on Hahnemühle paper. printed later Other sizes available 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 and Life Magazine among others.

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