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Mitchell Funk
"Messiah is Hear" with Godly Light, Celestial Light

2023

$6,500
£4,912.03
€5,750.47
CA$9,077.09
A$10,212.55
CHF 5,411.01
MX$126,112.15
NOK 66,333.24
SEK 63,737.09
DKK 42,895.07
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About the Item

A New York City street sign is viewed from the back. Posted to it's metallic surface are two street bills featuring a religious figure in a wide-brimmed black hat. The text reads, "MESSIAH IS HERE", MESSIAH IS HERE." Behind the sign, the street scene is illuminated with ringlets of golden spiritual-like Godly light. The golden light fills the full frame of the picture plane and encompasses the images of the "MESSIAH IS HERE. Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precisely designed at the same time? Mitchell Funk says yes. He brings finely honed photography skills such as composition, intense lighting and design to found subject matter. Mitchell Funk brings the compositional precision of studio photography to street photography. Unlike most street photographers, Funk is an abstractionist while being a documentarian. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/15, 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 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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