Mitchell Funk Photography
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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Artist: Mitchell Funk
Chrysler Building: The Smokestack and the Skyscraper
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Before Long Island City blossomed into a landscape of high-rise residential development, it was a gritty industrial area. One of the iconic images of the LIC was four monumental smo...
Category
1980s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Times Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
For over 50 years, Mitchell Funk has been renowned for creating images with precise lighting and compositional exactitude. The present image,
"Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black Hippie Portrait, Bethesda Fountain
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In 1969, Bethesda Fountain on weekends was a gathering places for the radicals of the time. Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were regulars speakers the...
Category
Late 20th Century Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building in New York Skyline Out-of-Focus
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In this deliberately out-of-focus 1979 photograph of the New York skyline from Weehawken, Mitchell Funk captures the dynamic urban energy of Mid-Town Manhattan through the expressive...
Category
1970s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building in Colorful Multiple Exposure - A Triumph of Color and Design
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Color Photographer Mitchell Funk experiments with multiple in-camera exposures of the Chrysler Building, producing a triumph of color and design in motion. No less than t...
Category
1990s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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...
Category
1960s Street Art Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black 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...
Category
1960s American Realist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building, Brooklyn Heights Promenade
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This photograph was taken in 1970, yet it looks surprisingly contemporary. The giveaway is how underdeveloped the Manhattan skyline looks. Both towers of the World Trade Center are ...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Semi Nude Men, Muscle Beach Miami Beach
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 2 of 15 Unframed. Other size available
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Statue of Liberty on a Truck, New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Most cities have a chaotic visual schema. However, through the lens of veteran Street Photographer Mitchell Funk, anarchy becomes order. In the present work, "Statue of Liberty on a...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sexy Male Nude on Endless Road in New Mexico in a Quest for Meaning
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A determined, lone, sexy nude male is about to sprint down an endless road in New Mexico and, in a quest for meaning, meet his destiny. The image exudes a sense of primal instincts...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Crown on a Rainy New York Night
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Driving night rain fashions a network of translucent pointelist dots in front of a glowing Chrysler Building Crown. The work is signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, with...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Painted Ladies Victorian and Edwardian houses of San Francisco, Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Painted Ladies of Alamo Square are an icon of San Francisco. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures them in a quintessential beautiful way. The images is a contrast between ...
Category
2010s American Modern Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Brooklyn Heights
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Warm late afternoon light illuminates a view of Mid-Town Manhattan from Brooklyn Heights. The supertalls of New York are lined up like soldiers at attention and are framed by the glo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fashion Models Nude Legs Fifth Avenue Billboard with Pedestrians
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A monumental Fifth Avenue billboard depicting three nude models from the waist down and only wearing shoes soars above passing pedestrians. The scene is characterized by a deeply imp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building with McDonald's Marquee from 42nd Street
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Photographer Mitchell Funk demonstrates the link between minimalism and street photography, which is usually associated with a loose snapshot style.
The present image fuses differen...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Empire State Building Magenta Architecture Manhattan Skyline, Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Two New York City architectural icons juxtaposed with each other in a magenta sky. The Empire State Building and the Twin Towers shot before a Manhattan building boom gives a clear ...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Wherever you Look, You See the Chrysler Building: Lower East Side
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Wherever you look, you see the Chrysler Building, which is particularly true from the Lower East Side. Street Photograph Mitchell Funk isolates a red pre-war parking sign from a busy...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Third Avenue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building. A Third Avenue bus creates a blur of color as it passes in front of the Chrysler Building. Photographer Mitchell Funk took the pres...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elevated View Of Women With Umbrella Walking On Scattered Leaves
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
High angle view of women with umbrella on New York City street.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/15, lower right...
Category
2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Twin Towers, World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan Bathed in Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Late afternoon golden light reflects off the metallic facade of the Twin Towers, turning them into two graphic shapes that tower above the lower Manhattan skyline. Glittering reflect...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Nude, Bikini Rooftop
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed, dated, numbered lower right recto. 3/15 printed later, unframed, other size available
Category
2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Twin Towers, World Trade Center Catches the Full Moon
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Street Photographer Mitchell Funk exploits an upward angle of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. At the convergence of the two towers, a full moon appears wedged...
Category
1970s Futurist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vintage Red Ferrari in Florence, Italy - Race Cars, Red Sports Cars
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A cluster of vintage red Ferraris lounge on displayed in a square in Florence, Italy. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk was struck by the unexpected site and documented the scene em...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
San Francisco Bay Bridge in Fog, Color Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
It's a moody and original account of an iconic American view. Dots of red for taillights become an abstract pattern in the foreground, while silhouetted pedestrians punctuate the com...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Cute Black Dog Against a Graphic Yellow Orange Wall in Mexico
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An observing black dog is captured against a yellow and red Coca-Cola sign in Guaymas, Mexico. Shot in 1970, Mitchell Funk was innovating in color photography, which is what many col...
Category
1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Old Las Vegas, Fremont Street Neon Signs, Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This is the greatest and most iconic picture and vintage Las Vegas even done. This classic view of downtown neon signs of Las Vegas before the wrecking ball demolished one of Americ...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Pastel Alley In North Beach, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Colorful houses on Fresno Street in the North Beach district of San Francisco.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/1...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Inkjet
Dumbo - Gold Brooklyn Bridge Cobblestone Street
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
What Brooklyn was like 51 years ago. Mitchell Funk brings new solutions to color photography in his use of golden light to transform a scene from a dull document into a beautiful a...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Art Deco Paris - Eiffel tower Place du Trocadéro Statues " Slave to Love" Gold
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
1990s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
San Francisco Victorians Painted Ladies San Francisco, Alamo Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
San Francisco Victorians Painted Ladies explode with color and charm in this graphic depiction. Direction light enhances the ornate details and heightens the color saturation whil...
Category
2010s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Manhattan Baseball field with Running Dog - Green Lawn
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A baseball field becomes a color field like painting with wide horizontal bands of day-glo green, earthy ocher and cool grey. Signed and dated on lower...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Solitary Running Horse Silhouetted against Blue Mountain
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A solitary galloping horse is captured in silhouette against a blue mountainous landscape. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, numbered ...
Category
1970s Modern Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Figures on New York Steps in Gold Chiaroscuro Caravaggio Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Inspired by the drama of chiaroscuro painting by Caravaggio, Mitchell Funk captures figures on the steps of Bryant Park in Manhattan. Unified by the late golden rays of the sun and t...
Category
1970s Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lombard Street, San Francisco in Golden Light, Color Photography Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Lombard Street, A Popular tourist location has a magical look. Mitchell Funk, waits for the right light at the right time of year.
Signature: Signed, dated, numbered lower right r...
Category
1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sailboat at Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered lower right recto. , Edition 3 of 15, Printed later. Unframed , other size available - Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of...
Category
1990s Modern Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building with Brooklyn Bridge
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Color photography in the mid-1970s had barely emerged as a recognized fine art form.
The few works in color that museum curators considered were mostly nature pictures or snapshot-l...
Category
1970s Abstract Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lone Sailboat on a placid turquoise sea
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The photographer preserves this fleeting and idyllic marine scene with a simple and graphic composition. This image is signed, dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto. Other size...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
American Flag on New York City Bus - Moody Street Art Abstraction.
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A large decal of an American Flag is pasted on the interior of a New York City bus. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a close-up of the bus as it passes by on the street. Th...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Futuristic Vision: Sci Fi Outer Space Cosmos Celestial Abstraction
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Decades before Photoshop and digital photography enabled the user to manipulate a photograph easily - Mitchell Funk created some of the most original, mind-bending, and technically brilliant images in analog. This work, "Futuristic Vision: Sci-Fi Outer Space," is a composite of two inverted Transamerica Buildings on a 35mm piece of film. It was done in 1978, and that is six years after the completion of the futuristic Transamerica Pyramid Building...
Category
1970s Futurist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
East Hampton Sky with Flock of Birds at Golden Sunset, Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A flock of birds at sunset in East Hampton is captured by color photographer Mitchell Funk. The overall composition without a central point of focus is not unlike the work of East H...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Astronaut Space Walks on Park Avenue Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An unexpected pedestrian is caught walking across Park Avenue on a rainy day. We are not sure where he came from or where he is going, but he seems to be on a mission. The Astronaut...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Colorful Field of Flowers with Redhead Child - East Hampton Like Monet
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Through Mitchell Funk's lens, a field of colorful flowers in bloom turns into a Monet-like Post-Impressionist painting. A lone redhead child punctuates the composition as she prance...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Sea and Golden Sky, Child Looking Out, Landscape Photography, Seascape
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A dramatic seascape with golden seas complemented by an equally golden sky is depicted with a child seen from the back gazing out into infinity. The viewer can read into it what he/...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
San Francisco Victorians Painted Ladies San Francisco, Alamo Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
San Francisco Victorians Painted Ladies explode with color and charm in this graphic depiction. Direction light enhances the ornate details and heightens the color saturation whil...
Category
2010s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Twin Towers, World Trade Center in Gold
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The World Trade Centers in its most captured in it's most simplified form. The buildings are reduced to just two columns of glowing gold.
Mitchell Funk has been famous for his interp...
Category
1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Central Park in Blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Impressionist rendition of classic view of New York City's landmark space 3/15 Signed, dated , numbered on lower right, recto unframed. Other sizes available , printed later, Pri...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Red Brick Factory Long Island City with Empire State Building in Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk's photograph of a Red Brick Factory in Long Island City is as much about color-field theory as it is a document of a brightly painted factory facade. Additionally, Fun...
Category
1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Victorious Nude Man on Naked Road in New Mexico - Gay Interest Surrealism
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Man conquers nature and expresses a victorious gesture to an endless landscape with billowing clouds. A quest for meaning for the individual could be another theme this image.
The ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Gas Station on a Foggy Night with Green Lights. Close Encounters
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The same year, the iconic science fiction movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released, visionary still photographer Mitchell Funk shot this SciFi-like image. It's of an un...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York Stock Exchange with American Flag - American Capitalism
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The symbol of American Capitalism is cloaked in the symbol of American Freedom. A monumental American Flag drapes the shiny facade of the New York Stock Exchange. Bright light illu...
Category
2010s American Modern Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vintage Blue Coca-Cola Coke Sign Coney Island
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 - Nostalgic old Coney Island Coke signs with a glympse of the rollercoaster create a bold and powerful abstraction
Signed, d...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Sabrett Hot Dog Vendors, Times Square, Golden Light, Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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, ...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
African American Youth With Water Reflections - Self Reflection
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
"Self Reflection " In the early 1970's Mitchell Funk was a trailblazer of color photography. In this stunning portrait the photographer merges naturalism and representation with abst...
Category
1970s Conceptual Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Old New York, Brooklyn Heights Promenade with Brooklyn Queens Expressway
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A unique view of The Brooklyn Heights Promenade is shot with magical golden late afternoon light shot in 1972 . The work has not only optic...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Silhouetted Lion on the planes of Africa at Sunset, Animal Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A striking image of lone Lion set against a dramatic colorful sunset of the animal's domain. Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, other sizes available, printed...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Timeless Staten Island Ferry and Statue of Liberty at Sunset in New York Harbor
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk captures a timeless image of New York scene in a fresh way. The unorthodox composition leaves the center of the picture vacant, leaving the two subjects on the extreme edges of the picture plane. The old State Island...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
San Francisco Cable Car at Sunset - Golden Haze
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The quintessential symbol of San Francisco is small in the picture frame but still is the central focus of the composition. Mitchell Funk's photograph of a Cable Car is as unexpecte...
Category
1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mitchell Funk photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Mitchell Funk photography available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of photography to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue, purple, orange and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Mitchell Funk in paper, archival paper, pigment print and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the abstract style. Not every interior allows for large Mitchell Funk photography, so small editions measuring 20 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Bill Jacobson, Carol Inez Charney, and Seb Janiak. Mitchell Funk photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $3,000 and tops out at $185,000, while the average work can sell for $5,500.