Mitchell Funk Photography

It's 1971, and most photographers were shooting in black and white. Fine Art Photography was not yet in the mainstream vocabulary of museums — almost no art galleries considered or ...

Mitchell Funk revisits popular tourist locations and shoots them in a way that perhaps millions of tourists never imagined. Not unlike Pop Art, he shows us a new way to look at icon...

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 ...

Occupying the lower third of the picture plane, a herd of humans stride down Fifth Avenue. They form an overall pattern. The top of the picture is also comprised of a simple pat...

Assisted by the right angle and right light, Street Photographer Mitchell Funk designs an image of Times Square Billboards that is as abstract as it is representational. Two huskies ...

Two participants at Fifth Avenue's Easter Parade flaunt their artistic Millinery. Veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk captured this dramatic and hyper-colorful double portrait...

A lonely-looking wide-eyed boxer peers out a car window in anticipation that his owner will return. On closer examination, this is not a photograph of a real Boxer but a cut out of...

The ephemeral nature of fleeting light is captured in Kodachrome in this early color photograph taken in 1971. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other s...

A contrast of two art styles describes this street photograph. A school bus-covered chaotic brush-stroked graffiti is juxtaposed with a symmetrical, color field-like umbrella compose...

Mitchell Funk's approach to the industrial world is always poetic. One would not think of a city highway to be aesthetic, but Funk seeks out beauty in unexpected places. "Motorcycle...

More than 10 major Hollywood movies have been shot on Bow Bridge. Manhattan, The Way We Were, Spiderman 3, Highlander, Keeping the Faith, When in Rome, Made of Honor, Night at the Museum, Autumn in New York, Great Expectations, Uptown Girls...

Two Facades. Mickey's Place was Bar / Restaurant in Chelsea opposite the old West Side Highway. In this photograph, late afternoon light illuminates the old walk-up building giving ...

For 53 years, Mithcell Funk has been photographing the art deco beauty of the Chrysler Building. In this work, Funk frames the iconic spire between two other rectilinear shapes. On t...

Pink Flamingos are social animals. They gather in large groups and chat it up. Their gregarious natures is a benefit for photographers. Individually the bird is a living sculpture. A...

Golden light skims off the facades on West 44th Street as Neon Lights create a second light source that beckons. Two of Broadway's most famous mainstays, Sardis Restaurant and The S...

A black businessman is captured dashing down the street against a colorful wall. The image is slightly blurred, adding a sense of beauty and moodiness to the image and creating harm...

When light illuminates the city, there is a good chance you will find Mitchell Funk at the ready to capture it. Glistening light skims off the water's surface, turning it light blu...

Street photograph of an eccentric woman with a brightly colored hat and colorful clothes pushing a baby carriage with a dog occupant. She stands in front of a window display with bri...

Street Photography: Literally. A downward view of a wet monochromatic Manhattan street references color-field painting. Flat geometric sections of color are accented by an alternati...

Through an 800mm lens, late afternoon light dissolves a glass skyscraper into a glistening and glimmering rectangle. Atmospheric conditions assist the optical illusion where the peri...

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 ...

Bubble Encounter. Biomorphic abstract shapes from manmade monumental bubbles evoke the character of living forms. They echo the natural forms of the rocks but in a softer, lighter wa...

A Jet Ski - Wave Runner race is documented from an elevated position to be as abstract as it is representational. Diagonal white trails of waves extend behind each colorful Jet Ski l...

One of the defining characteristics of Mitchell Funk's work is how he shoots with light. In "Foggy San Francisco Skyline with Ship," Funk takes light into a new realm and in doing so...

The romantic merges with the classic in Mitchell Funk's 1970s interpretation of the Brooklyn Bridge. With a long lens, Funk incorporates the emotionally joyful colors of out-of-focu...

Mitchell Funk displays an unparalleled ability to translate a drab street scene into a dimensional and compelling image. A Red Eye Pigeon is captured against a facade illuminated wi...

With a nod to the surrealist painter Paul Delvaux, Street Photographer Mithcell Funk captures two differently dressed women in a dreamlike state. The lighting and architectural sett...

The weather phenomenon that defines San Francisco, fog, separates a party of Kayakers from the iconic skyline. It puts them into an enigmatic limbo-like state. Photographer Mitchell ...

Since 1969, Mitchell Funk has been a Minimalist Photographer. His signature style focuses on reducing pictorial elements to their essentials. In this recent image, shot in 2023, he continues the tradition but takes it to a new level. Funk captures a magic moment of a flock of alternating dark and light-colored pigeons in flight. He frames the shot as if it were a painting by Kenneth Noland...

Magical golden light skims off a 19th-century cobblestone road that appears to lead into an equally antique-looking lower Manhattan skyline illuminated with golden light. As a proge...

Golden rays rim light a single figure sitting on a Central Park Bench. He becomes more of a shape than a specific individual and, as such, blends i...

Street Photography can be beautiful. Bird on a Ledge by street photographer Mitchell Funk is an exceptionally distinctive example of shooting the streets of New York and getting a lo...

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...

In this Mitchell Funk photograph, The Central Park Conservancy of Flowers is bursting into bloom with the seductive color of yellow tulips and red tulips. In the upper left-hand cor...

Bright reds, yellows, blue and green stripes adorn a wall in lower Manhattan. Chairs of the same color scheme line the street and have an older woman with a scarf covering her face. ...

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...

Cherry Blossoms in Central Park with a lone figure in a blue shirt set against the iconic pre-war architecture of Central Park West. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on v...

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...

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...

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...

Signed and dated on the lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed, Printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper. Mitchell Funk is a p...

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...

New York City seen uniquely through the artful lens of Mitchell Funk. We all have seen images of the financial district in Lower Manhattan but this original in a very artful way. T...

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...