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Style: American Realist
Artist: Mitchell Funk
Angel to the Rescue. Near Death Drug Overdose - Lower East Side
Located in Miami, FL
A disheveled young man lies passed out on Ludlow Street in New York City's Lower East Side. As if he was invisible, herds of pedestrians shuffle by. An angel benevolently comes to hi...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

New Yorkers Crossing the Street in Silhouette High Contrast, Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Figures silhouetted by extreme lighting yield a dramatic and powerful view of New York City life. This is a stunning example of Mitchell Funk blending the abstract with the represen...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Eccentric Bulldog Portrait with Red Sweater in the Tenderloin, San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
Weirdness is not just restricted to people in San Francisco's notorious Tenderloin district. A proud and eccentric-looking dog hams it up for the lens of photographer Mitchell F...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

American Flag with Retro Mid-Century Car - Red and Blue - Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
What is more patriotic than a retro mid-century blue and red 70s convertible with an American flag draped from its trunk? Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the moment with ...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper

Old House and Truck in 1970's Urban Scene
Located in Miami, FL
What America looked like in 1979. This three-storied house with peeling paint, dilapidated terraces, and a clothesline was shot in Hartford, Connecticut. Signed, dated and numb...
Category

1970s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink

Retro Urban Street Photograph - A Conversation in Blues and Reds
Located in Miami, FL
Two men have a conversation and joke-it-up on the steps of a boarded-up store named Nicks Cleaners. The whole scene is awash in dreamy blues and reds. Absorbing the influence of bot...
Category

1980s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink

Old Miami Beach at Night - Ethereal Wolfie's Restaurant Neon
Located in Miami, FL
The ethereal neon sign of a Miami Beach classic glows at night. Customers of Wolfie's Restaurant are seen through a window, while a backlit bus stop lightbox illuminates a single ma...
Category

Early 2000s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Soho - Houston Street with Early Color Field Street Art
Located in Miami, FL
Illuminated in rim lighting, a lone man sits crouched in front of an early example of street art. A giant abstract painting raises seven stor...
Category

1970s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Saturated Blue Sky Small Town, Early Color Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Like William Eggleston, Mitchell Funk is an early trailblazer of color photography with unexpected images created in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This image shows a close-up of a ...
Category

1970s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Double-take. Street Photography with Eerie Blue Eyed Billboard
Located in Miami, FL
A photograph of a photograph can be as real as reality. Illusion and reality on the streets of New York are on display in this double-take street photograph by Mitchell Funk. The f...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Debutantes in Formal Black Evening Dress with Tiara in Times Square
Located in Miami, FL
An everyday street scene yields an unexpectedly delightful moment. Charming young Debutantes crowned with tiaras lift their elaborate formal dresses off the asphalt as they cross a ...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Painted Ladies Victorian Architecture, Alamo Square San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
Famous Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a colorful image of the classic scene of San Francisco's colorful Victorian Architecture. This is no...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

Moondog in Infrared Against Black Rock CBS Building, Street People
Located in Miami, FL
Moondog, was a blind American composer and musician. He was a fixture in front of the CBS building Black Rock on 6th Avenue and 5nd street. Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tra...
Category

1970s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Homeless Souls in Bryant Park, Manhattan - Vintage New York Homeless
Located in Miami, FL
The early 1970s was a period of reexamination of the state of photography for Mitchell Funk. He broke with the tradition of shooting gritty street photography in black and white and ...
Category

1970s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Black Boy Broken Glass Brooklyn Museum Color Photography Show by Henri Ghent
Located in Miami, FL
An early example of a street photography portrait in color and multiple exposures with an image of broken glass . Exhibited: Images en Couleur, Brooklyn Museum, 1970. ( This was firs...
Category

1970s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Ink

Anti-Vietnam War Protesters Hippies in Central Park with American Flag
Located in Miami, FL
An attractive ffemale Hippie in Central Park during an Anti-Vietnam War protest and sandwiched with another image of an American flag. The print is signed...
Category

1970s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Abandoned Homeless Man on the Steps of Bryant Park - Street Photography in Color
Located in Miami, FL
The early 1970s was a period of reexamination of the state of photography for Mitchell Funk. He broke with the tradition of shooting gritty street photography in black and white and ...
Category

1970s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Times Square in the 1960s - Portrait with Dancing Sign - Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Even at the age of 19, street photographer Mitchell Funk forged a unique style of street color photography. It was based on formal and exacting compositions with an emphasis on stron...
Category

1960s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Hard Times - Street People in Monochromatic Grey New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 52 years ago in 1971, it was qu...
Category

1970s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Gladiators - Gay San Francisco , Folsom Street Fair. BDSM Leather LGBTQ FETISH
Located in Miami, FL
Taken at the Folsom Street Fair. BDSM Leather LGBTQ FETISH in Gay San Francisco. Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precisely designed at th...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink

Bare Ass, Folsom Street Fair Gay San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
The print is signed, dated, and numbered with an edition of 2/15. It's signed lower right recto. printed later. Other sizes are available and it's unframed. Printed on Hahnemühle F...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Gladiators - Gay San Francisco , Folsom Street Fair. BDSM Leather LGBTQ FETISH
Located in Miami, FL
Taken at the Folsom Street Fair. BDSM Leather LGBTQ FETISH in Gay San Francisco. Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precisely designed simul...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink

Old West with dramatic sky
Located in Miami, FL
Piercing white light breaks through the clouds to illuminate an abandoned gas station in Arizona. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/1...
Category

American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Back Dog in New York Park
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Children Gaze out San Francisco Street Car into the Rain, Fine Art Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Cute kids gaze out into the rain. Observed in primary colors, these primary schoolers are framed by the bold yellow and purple of a streetcar window. Mitchell Funk brings the comp...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

One Two Three - The Subway Riders
Located in Miami, FL
They are three distinctly different people. They are living in their own little personal world but yet share the same space. New Yorkers lost in thought and though apart they descen...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Winston. Super Long Taste, Manhattan
Located in Miami, FL
This was shot just a few blocks north of the world trade center site. In the 1970's there were still 19th century walk up buildings, including this one that hosts a cigarette Billboard Signed...
Category

1970s American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Hippie Girl, Bethesda Fountain
Located in Miami, FL
In 1969, Bethesda Fountain on weekends was a gathering place for the radical and hip people of the time. Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were regulars...
Category

1960s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Inkjet

Pacific Heights, San Francisco by Mitchell Funk Street Photographer
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a "Street Photographer" - Literally. Painted stripes of lemon yellow lead the eye into an expanse of cerulean blue over San Francisco Bay. Signed and dated on lo...
Category

Early 2000s American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Elephants with tusks in Mexico, Life Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Done on assignment for Life Magazine, It was photographed outside Tampico Mexico. Elephants were transported to Mexico from for rehab after training in Oregon. The photographer and ...
Category

1980s American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Central Park in Snow with Dreamy Midtown Skyline
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto. Edition 3 of 15, Unframed. Other size available Another version of this was on the cover of New York Magazine. Mitchell Funk is a pionee...
Category

Early 2000s American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Twin Towers, World Trade Center
Located in Miami, FL
Chromogenic archival print 60 × 40 in signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 printed later, Other size available
Category

American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Film

East Hampton Leisure Boating
Located in Miami, FL
Illuminated by late afternoon light, this popular pond becomes an evocation of a lyrical landscape. Signed dated and numbered lower right recto , 2/15 Printed later, other size avai...
Category

Early 2000s American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Purple Victorian Houses San Francisco - The Painted Ladies
Located in Miami, FL
The city that boasts the most Victorian Houses San Francisco and the best of them are the That Painted Ladies. The Color Purple . San Francisco Victori...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Elephants in Mexico, Life Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. Done on assignment for Life Magazine, It was photographed outside Tampico Mexico. Elephants were transported to Mexico from for rehab after training ...
Category

1980s American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Legs Haight Ashbury, San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed
Category

Early 2000s American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Camel, Petra, Jordan
Located in Miami, FL
Quintessential view of this historic place depicted with graphically powerful silhouette. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 4 of 15, Printed later. Unframed
Category

American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Back Dog in New York Park
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Surfer at Golden Gate
Located in Miami, FL
A lone surfer contemplates San Francisco bay as a splashing white wave of water partially obscures his view. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 4/15 Printed later, ...
Category

American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Single Scull
Located in Miami, FL
Idyllic moment moment composed in a perfectly balanced composition. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed Printed on...
Category

Early 2000s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper

Fifth Avenue Legs
Located in Miami, FL
Leg Show. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 1/15, other size available, unframed
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Chimp Behind Bars. Life Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Perfectly composed composition depicts caged adult chimpanzee staring out from his confinement. Editorial assignment on Chimpanzees and Animal issues. Life Magazine...
Category

1980s American Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Crushed Coke Can Street Asphalt - Real Life Street Art
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk's color photograph of "Crushed Coke Can on Street Asphalt" documents street art created by a pedestrian. Funk transforms it into a graphic and ...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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