Mitchell Funk Art

This is an in-camera manipulated photograph from 1970. It depicts soft light caressing trees as they are mirrored in the water. The image is filled with nuanced blue-magenta color. ...

Street Photographer Mitchell Funk uses of a 500mm telephoto lens to capture the two subjects lost in thought. Selective focus throws the background out of focus and creates a dreamy...

Manhattan Nocturne by Mitchell Funk. The colors are the music of the night. The image is a stunning example of the artist’s blending of the abstract and representational. Signed, ...

In 1984 Life Magazine was in full stride. Their photo editors sent photographers on location to document stories visually. At the US Army Munitions Depot, Edgemont, South Dakota, Mit...

A pile of empty and discarded colorful paint cans inadvertently becomes an artful abstract still life in itself. Documented through the keen lens of st...

Mitchell Funk is a Street Photographer who shoots gritty themes that come out beautifully. In "Manhattan Window Reflections," a typically drab street scene is transformed into a vivi...

Master of design, light, and composition, Street Photographer Mitchell Funk outdoes himself with this visually intriguing image of street patterns created by raking light. The line...

Mitchell Funk's continued exploration into the endless and fascinating beauty of the Chrysler Building's spire takes an unexpected turn in this semi-abstract image. His use of a 500mm lens throws out-of-focus the foreground while it simultaneously frames and compliments the Manhattan art...

This is a long lens selective focus shot of a "Pigeon Party" atop one of Manhattan's many wood water towers. Like all of Funk's street photography, he designs his pictures with the...

Museum in a car - The artsiest of art museums is artfully depicted in street photographer Mitchell Funk's imaginative photograph. A passing red car with similar curvilinear forms has the museum's facade reflected in its roof window...

Silhouetted elephants trek across a desolate African landscape are backlit by a soulful sunset. Color photographer Mitchell Funk pushes the boundaries of animal portraiture with a pr...

Snow scene in Central Park in blue and white. White Doves over New York City Bethesda Fountain in the Snow. This is an image about the interaction between winged creatures.. .some are birds, and some are statues. The birds are in flight and the bronze with outstretched wings is poised to flight. Circling the bronze, the birds seem to be egging on the bronze statue to join them. Funk employs a blur effect of the birds combined with soft snow that envelops the fountain sculpture designed by Emma...

Pioneering Color Photographer Mitchell Funk carefully crafts a composition where the graceful Art Deco shapes of the Chrysler Building spire play off t...

Dogscape New York City. First light skims across an upper East Side playground with fallen autumn foliage. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is s...

Graffiti-clad New York City Street scene with wall shot by veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk in his trademark colorful style. In Funk's oeuvre co...

Color Photography pioneer Mitchell Funk is famous for blending representation with a broad emphasis on abstract qualities. He is a photographic minimalist cropping out extraneous details. His work focuses on color relationships and interactions between shapes. Funk started shooting in 1969, and today he's still as active as ever and continues to innovate. In "Impressionist Street Scene...

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...

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...

Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal: make color photography full of color in what was then a nascent ...

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...

An unexpectedly bright magenta wall serves as a background for a hatted passerby. In 1970 very few people were shooting in color, and just a handful of photographers exploited the co...

The glorification of light was an early theme Mitchell Funk employed in his street photography. Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this...

In the early 1970s, Central Park was a center for celebrations and protests. In his image, the Hare Krishnas who are a mystical sect of Hinduism are capt...

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 50 years ago, in 1972, it was q...

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 1970, it was q...

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 q...

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...

Reminiscent of the dreamy elegance of a bygone era, Mitchell Funk transforms a tourist location into the quintessence of timeless Paris chic. To achieve this the photographer had to rid the Trocadero of toursits. Next came choosing the right camera angle and lighting the scene dramatically. The photo recalls Brian Ferry...

For decades the Bowery as the home of a huge vagrant population in New York City. This 1970 portrait captures a derelict with piercing blue eyes that echos his blue state of mind a...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1970s color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal is to make color photography full of color. In this image, notice how the colors of the kids...

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...

For generations, The Bowery was known for homeless, abandoned alcoholics. This insightful and soulful portrait from 1969 shows one of the Bowery's street residents against a green w...

A hip young black woman in Central Park pauses for a moment of reflection after her roller skate dance. Street photographer, Mithcell Funk, captures her in an off moment of introspe...

They say that New York City is full of contrast and contradictions. So is the case in this unexpected street photograph by Mitchell Funk, where we see the joyful optimism of a of bo...

The Chrysler Building, a New York art deco masterpiece, is framed by modern buildings in this carefully composed image by veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk. Signed and dat...

Surreal City Scene with Man and his Shadows - Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15. Unframed. Other size available, Printed later - Printed on Hahnemühl...

In the early 1970s, color photography was not really considered to be art by any standard. Mitchell Funk is one of the early trailblazers of color photography as fine art. In this 19...

White sailboats form a beautiful pattern in San Fransico Bay. The shapes of Sailboats in San Francisco dot the bay and are echoed by Cumulus clouds Signed and dated on the lower r...

Veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk creates an arresting image composed of contrasting elements. A common New York City street light morphs into a haunting abstraction while ...

A celebration of Life is symbolized by a rooftop Black Jazz Musician hitting the high note just as a fireworks display lights up the New York sky. Signed ...

This early work by street photographer Mithcell Funk, shows a lone woman gazing out from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. The whole image in ...

An unexpected marquee at the base of upscale 30 Rockefeller Center beams neon into the night. The 1930's art deco monolith is lit up like a silver spaceship as it thrusts into an ink...

San Francisco's famous Victorian Row Houses are soaked in the golden light of early morning. The dramatic clouds above take on the same color scheme of th...

At dusk in Manhattan, a restaurant facade turns red and yellow from the exterior neon light. Veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk captures a moment when the snowy skies open ...

A moody Manhattan Skyline in blue serves as a backdrop to a flock of seagulls caressed in magical light. Signed, dated, numbered 3/15 lower right recto, unframed, other sizes avail...

A pushcart street vendor selling hot dogs is somehow transformed into something bigger. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the scene in extreme golden light. As a result, ...

In Manhattan, a vintage turquoise sign pops out from a dark background and creates a powerful graphic composition. The fine art photograph is Signed, dated and numbered lower right...

The interplay of light and shadow, greys and magenta transform a portrait of a flamboyantly dressed young girl into an optically engaging abstraction composed of alternating patterns...

Modern Photography Cover, February, 1987 Triple exposure of silhouetted men on a hill, against plexiglass colored shapes echoing the bold iconic architectural curves of the opera h...

United Nations wrapped in Divine Light while a man on a Jet Ski passes glides in front on the East River Bright golden light rushes down 42nd street and cloak...

Street art comes to the intersection of street photography. Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed, printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle Fi...

San Francisco Skyline with Blue Sky is depicted in a artfully way. One big puffy cloud hovers over the skyline of San Francisco and is counterbalanced by a big puffy area of fog. Th...

The underside of a blue bridge in Miami is transformed into a statement of about urban color. It's a hauntingly beautiful night image of Miami in blue and is punctuated with a red st...

Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available . P...

Early New York City skyscrapers rich in history are celebrated in this magical image. Golden late afternoon illuminates the facade of New York City's first skyscraper: The Flatiron Building. Directly behind the Flatiron is the Beaux-Arts Neoclassical Consolidated Edison Building at 4 Irving Place. In the far distance and in another borough is the iconic Williamsburg Tower...

For over 50 years pioneering color photographer Mitchell Funk has been documenting the life of New York City. Funk's central preoccupation is recording the beauty of the visual worl...

Late light skims off the brick facade of a historic red brick building in Manhattan. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk creates an image that is both a realistic document of an urban...