Mitchell Funk Photography

Man in the Mist. Lost in thought and cloaked in a veil of mist and smoke, a young black man stands atop a fountain's pillar and ponders the world. The adjacent light post's shape ec...

Seen through two surrounding buildings, the Chrysler Building's spire emerges as a cool blue Art Deco statement. Photographer Mitchell Funk selects a precise angle so that the photog...

Wherever you look, you see The Chrysler Building, which is particularly true from Gramercy Park looking uptown. In this tightly cropped view, Photographer Mitchell Funk composes the ...

A typical street scene in New York City's Tribeca neighborhood is photographed unexpectedly. Pedestrians are depicted walking in front of a reflective surface, which results in a typ...

A monochromatic winter snow scene in Central Park with a leafless tress raises questions. How can a city with over 8 million people jammed into a small space yield an expansive, unp...

In Mitchell Funk's continuing series about redefining New York City icons, he allows light and camera angle to change the subject's look and alter the sense of place. In this work, ...

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...

Nature's Splendor is captured with deer grazing at sunset on East Hampton's famous Louse Point. This image is signed, dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are avai...

Bathed in the warm glow of late afternoon light, the Mid-Town Manhattan skyline glitters in a rich palette of gold and magenta. In the foreground, the Empire State Building rises li...

New York is Smoking Documentary Travel Photographers / Color Photography / Abstract Photography Signed , dated lower right and numbered verso 2 /15, Unframed, printed latinerOther ...

Mitchell Funk takes skyscraper photography to new heights. The Central Park Tower rises to the mind-numbing height of 1,550 feet, but through Funk's lens, it soars even higher in one...

It used to be that wherever you looked, you could see the Chrysler Building. With Manhattan's rapid growth, you now must look a little harder. In the foreground of this image, the 4...

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 ...

Snow comes to Manhattans' Central Park and veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk captures it. Besides the understated muted beauty of the image, it's a document of emptiness in ...

A row of four verdant topiary trees mimics the shape and cadence of elegant windows in a home in the Sea Cliff section of San Francisco. The overall resulting image is a combinati...

For 55 years, Mithcell Funk has been capturing the emotive power of color and light. In the present image, "Raining with Sunshine," Funk captures three horses lined up in a row and ...

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...

The play of light and shadow is on full display in this photograph by Mitchell Funk. His upward view of the Chrysler Building from an unexpected angle departs from traditional color ...

Dogs at play while owner work. Shot from the a New York City sidewalk. Signed and dated on lower right, 3/15 numbered on verso, unframed. printed later Other sizes available,, othe...

As it soars above smaller buildings, The Chrysler Building spire resolutely points to the heavens. The flat white sky emphasizes the spire's silhouette, allowing it to dominate the ...

Shot on location Near Taos, New Mexico, 4 of an edition of 15, Signed, dated and number lower right recto, Other sizes available unframed, printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle ...

Street photographer Mithcell Funk celebrates the colorfully painted Victorians in Alamo Square with a color photograph that reveals the true character of the architecture. It's a jo...

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...

A 19th-century red fire call box is smothered in street advertisements and graffiti. It dominates the left half of the composition. Behind i, a street-l...

Cherry Blossoms in full bloom adorn the verdant fields of Central park and make beautiful abstract patters. Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, other sizes a...

In 1980, conventional thinking suggested that one highly dramatic photograph of the New York skyline would be a sufficient artistic statement. Photographer Mitchell Funk felt there w...

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...

Wherever you look, you see The Chrysler Building. Through the lens of Photographer Mitchell Funk, The 1991 Mid-Town Manhattan skyline is seen at sunset from Weehawken, New Jersey. ...

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...

Cover Nikon World, Spring 2005, Published in Popular Photography Magazine 2000, Times Square Billboard 2001 Signed , dated lower right, Edition 2 ...

The Chrysler Building Spire is zoomed by Photographer Mitchell Funk. The concept is to take one of the most photographed icons in the world and present it visually different but stil...

This close-up of the Chrysler Building Spire in gold light was taken from the roof of a building on 38th Street. Its position gave Photographer Mitchell Funk a perfect line of sight ...

Old New York, Brooklyn Heights Promenade, 1972, Bathed in magical golden light. There is a sense of loneliness akin to Edward Hopper paintings where ...

A girl is shrouded in a golden mist of shimming water droplets emanating from a fountain. This image looks like something post-impressionist Georges Seurat would paint, but in realit...

A woman in a purple umbrella is captured in front of Bethesda Fountain Central Park in a driving snowstorm. Her formal pose perfectly aligns with the bronze sculpture so that one ele...

A bold Black Liberation Army banner is featured among drummers and hippies in a 1971 Central Park protest. We see a rudimentary Super 8 video camera recording it all in the lower le...

The majestic Art Deco Chrysler Building soars in between Manhattan's skyscrapers. The cropping is radical and exudes a sense of urban exactitude, seamlessly woven into the light-fi...

Since its construction, Mitchell Funk has been chronicling the Twin Towers, of the World Trade Center. More specifically, he has been recording how light affects and transforms the two giant monoliths. Like us all, Mitchell was inspired by the formidable presence of the two buildings. Living in Brooklyn Heights with great views of lower Manhattan gave him a special advantage and opportunity to assemble some of the most iconic Twin Tower images ever taken. To Mitchell Funk, the Twin Towers, of the World Trade Center were the perfect synthesis of commerce and art. Most modern architecture is simply functional. Minoru Yamasaki's Twin Towers were in fact something quite radical. They were a steel and glass expression of Minimalism on the grandest scale in human history. Everything in the towers was stripped down to its essential quality with nothing extraneous added ….. except light. The way the buildings reflected light made them unique and inspired Mitchell to record them in color for 32 years. Although, the exterior was actually made of a very reflective blue/grey stainless steel the warm light of daybreak and sunset could change their color and transform them from buildings into and mystical monumental sculptures. With the help of the sun as a key player, Mitchell’s images of the Twin Towers progress from the mystical to the spiritual as they reflect the sun’s intense golden energy. Under these conditions, one could argue, that the Twin Tower housed the same type of divine energy as the adjacent churches. In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy, one could interpret Twin Tower sunset images differently. A sunset can be a symbol for the end of the day or simply The End. The 1969 image “Dead End” is a visual prognostication. The North Tower is under construction in the background and in the foreground, Mitchell has framed it between two street signs that read Dead End. In Mitchell’s Twin Tower photographs, he is not taking a tourist picture that says “here I am on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade...

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...

Dinosaur , Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 2 of 15, Printed later. Unframed , Other sizes available Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper

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...

Signed, dated, numbered on lower right, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper

The surrounding clouds' graphic formation pays tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum's simplified design of repetitive shapes. In this stunningly original image, Photogr...

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...

Divine Intervention? Magical, almost angelic light envelops an ambulance event in Central Park. The body language of the surrounding crowd and the open ambulance door indicate a seri...

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...

A spectacular vast orange sunset dominates the sky as tiny onlookers gaze up and out with amazement. The image has a surreal quality to it and the relationship to the sky and people...

Graffiti wall in Soho district in Manhattan was photographed in 2007 that's more than a decade before the Urban Art craze had seized the attention of the art world. Art photographer...

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...

New York City is renowned as a center of world-class Museums and tastemaker Art Galleries. However, some of the greatest art is street art mad...

Trailblazing Color Photographer Mitchell Funk once again sets the standard for originality and inventiveness. His use of hyper-lighting and composition produces a retina-numbing imag...

Can a photograph reduce stress and anxiety? Photographer Mitchell Funk says yes with his high-angle shot that harmoniously unifies sea and land. A pleasing relationship is created ...

A red-billed duck swims in a pond of impressionist yellow and blue colors that please the viewer's optic nerve and soothe one's mood. The image is as abstract as it is representation...

In 1971, Central Park was a hub for Vietnam War Protests. In this work, Mitchell Funk captures a packed protest scene with emphasis on the graphic nature of the banners and flags. Th...

Street Photographer Mitchell Funk's signature hi-color/design photography merges with photojournalism in this introspective New York City Taxi Portrait. Signed, dated, numbered low...

Golf Green A large area of Yellowish Green covers the pictorial surface and accented by a terra cotta building in the foreground. The photographer captures the perfect moment on wha...

Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 4/15, unframed, other sizes available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper In-camera multiple exposures with red, orange,...

In the 1970s, senior citizens were fixtures on New York City park benches. In this image, golden light conveys the expressive nature of a disparate relationship between an old man an...

In an unexpected bronze light, Mitchell Funk captures a classic view of San Francisco with a portrait of a famed cable car. The reflection of light in the car's left window gives the...

A gathering of different animal species has one thing in common: The sun. Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a congregation of Central Park residents basking in the warm light of s...