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Mitchell Funk Art

American, b. 1950

Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of color photography. In 1970, he participated in one of the first color photography shows at the Brooklyn Museum titled “Images en Couleur." In 1971, he was included in the visionary books Frontiers of Photography and Color (Life Library of Photography), both published by Time-Life. He has done more than 50 photography magazine covers, including covers for Newsweek and Life.

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Period: 1960s
Artist: Mitchell Funk
Intoxicated Skid Row Bowery Homeless, Gritty Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Enter the Wood Chipper. Before the Bowery was a trendy destination, it was America's most famous Skid Row. Vagrant flophouses, 10-dollar prostitutes, dive bars, and what used to be ...
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1960s Realist Mitchell Funk Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Vagabond Vagrant - Life on the Fringe in the Bowery - The Streets of New York
By Mitchell Funk
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 1969, it was qu...
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1960s Modern Mitchell Funk Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Times Square Theater Posters Morosco Theatre. FORTY CARATS
By Mitchell Funk
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 53 years ago in 1969 it was quit...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Bowery Skid Row Portrait. Urban Street Art - Mid Century Green Wall
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
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1960s Modern Mitchell Funk Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Times Square in the 1960s - Portrait with Dancing Sign - Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
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...
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1960s American Realist Mitchell Funk Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Abstract Church - Manipulated Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This is an early example of photo manipulation. Photographer put a match to the 35mm emulsion to the burned bubble effect and then sandwiched it with colored gels in a double exposur...
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1960s Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Blue Buildings, New York 1970, Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This transcendent image by art photographer Mitchell Funk's "Blue Buildings, New York 1970" is generations ahead of its time. Executed in 1970, it pushed the boundaries of color pho...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Archival Pigment

Magical light on road. Litchfield, Connecticut
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
As if it were illuminated from an unearthly source, a Ford Falcon glows as it cruises down a country road. Telefone lines extend across the road as if they were spider webs. Mitchel...
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1960s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

Black Hippie with Blond Afro, Washington Square Park - Henri Ghent Black Curator
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In 1969, weekends at Bethesda Fountain were a gathering place for the radical, glamorous, and hip people of the time. Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were regular speakers there. Po...
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1960s Street Art Mitchell Funk Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Inkjet

Hippie Girl, Bethesda Fountain
By Mitchell Funk
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...
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1960s American Realist Mitchell Funk Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Inkjet

42nd St. Diamond Stud
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Adult movie marquees of old 42nd street in 1970. Double header, ABC's of Marriage and Diamond Stud Signature: Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 2 of 15. Unf...
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1960s Abstract Mitchell Funk Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Inkjet

Bowery Bum's Bottles
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto. Edition 3 of 15, Unframed. Other size available , Printed later Still life of cheap boose bottle created by a homeless person in the Bowe...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Wall Street, Negative Color, Abstract Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of negative color, abstract and color photography. This image was shot in 1970 and foreshadows major color photography movements more than 40 years in the...
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1960s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Brooklyn Bridge and Old Man
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Brooklyn Bridge and Old Man was done in 1969 decades before digital. the Artist uses exactor razor blades to scratch out color gel and then assembles them all together on a 35mm sli...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

New York City, 1970 - Multiple Exposure by Mitchell Funk - Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This image is 52 years old and yet still looks cutting-edge beautiful. New York City, 1971 is an image generationsahead of its time. Not just for its creative graphic use of color a...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink

42nd St. Diamond Stud
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Adult movie marquees of old 42nd street in 1970. Double header, ABC's of Marriage and Diamond Stud Signature: Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 2 of 15. U...
Category

1960s Abstract Mitchell Funk Art

Materials

Inkjet, Photographic Film

Abstract Brooklyn Bridge, Camera 35 Cover, 1973
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. In-camera multiple exposure with colored gels produces a complex semi-abstract image generation ahead of its time. Created in 1970. Camera 35 Cove...
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1960s Abstract Mitchell Funk Art

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Photographic Paper

Magical light on road. Litchfield, Connecticut
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. As if it were illuminated from an unearthly source, a Ford Falcon glows as it cruises down a country road. Mitchell Funk pioneered the use of late, dr...
Category

1960s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Abstract Church - Manipulated Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This ia an early example of photo manipulation. Photographer put a match to the 35mm emulsion to the burned bubble effect and then sandwiched it with colored gels in a double exposur...
Category

1960s Expressionist Mitchell Funk Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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