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
Sailboats in New York Harbor with Silver Water and Silver Light WTC
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
1970s Modern Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Midtown Manhattan at dusk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 3 of 15, Printed later. Unframed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Follow The Light - Abstract Photography Golden Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk follows the light. Come along with him and become illuminated. Ephemeral rays of golden light strike an Upper East Side pre-war facade under renovation. The resulting...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Sci Fi Close Encounters with Orange New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Conceptual Photographer Mitchell Funk created a Sci-Fi image 2 years before the iconic Close Encounters of a Third Kind was released in 1977. Funk's work is really two images combine...
Category
1970s Conceptual Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Eiffel Tower with flocks of people
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The arching shape of a 20mm lens reflected in the grand arches of the Eiffel Tower. Flocks of meandering tourists give a sense of scale Grandiose wrought iron tower...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Heard of Elephants on African Plane at Sunset
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Alamo Square Victorian Houses, San Francisco - Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Alamo Square Painted Ladies with modern skyscrapers in background, San Francisco.
Signed dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed, printed later. ...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Whimsical Woman with Colorfully Fanciful Outfit Blue Eyeglasses
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a frontal portrait of an older woman with an inventively outrageous look. Piercing blue circular eyeglasses and a handmade pointy hat remin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Picture of the Unknown - Plein Air Painter's Surreal Dream
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
It's a picture of the unknown. We do not know who the artist is. We do not know what the subject is. We do not know where the location is. It is all left to conjecture, yet the image...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Brooklyn Heights Promenade in Golden Light - Magical Light - Edward Hopper
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This early work by street photographer Mithcell Funk, shows a lone woman gazing out from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. The whole image in ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Old New York Brooklyn Heights Promenade by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Old New York, Brooklyn Heights Promenade, 1972, Bathed in magical golden light. There is a sense of loneliness akin to Edward Hopper paintings where ...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Spire with Moon - Art Deco skyscraper
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Color Photographer Mitchell Funk carefully crafts a composition where the graceful Art Deco shapes of the Chrysler Building spire play off t...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bowery Street Scene with Abstract Graffiti
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Pink Flamingos Socializing with a Colorful Background
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Urban Melancholy Blue. Motionless Young Man, Graffiti Wall in Soho
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An urban youth shrouds his head in a blue sweater as he coils up against a blue Soho wall marked with Graffiti. Reminiscent of Picasso's Blue Period, the photograph is characteriz...
Category
2010s Street Art Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden and Yellow Foliage in Central Park - Nature Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Nature Photography in the City. Central Park's Autumn foliage is transformed into a delightful abstract pattern where natural organic shapes interact with the architectonic shapes of...
Category
2010s Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vintage Las Vegas- Fremont Street Neon Signs, The Mint, Old Las Vegas
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The neon signs of Fremont Street's casinos are more than just documented by photographer Mitchell Funk. They are carefully composed as if it were a studio still life with each elemen...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Jet Ski Water Sport Action Wave Race in Blue Water
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Shirtless Man with Hat Against Pink Wall Chelsea, Manhattan - Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
1970s Street Art Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Synchronous Pedestrians - Three Figures Crosswalk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Three synchronous figures cross a Manhattan street just after a snow fall. The normally black pavement is turned light grey due to the salting of the street.
Mitchell Funk is a "Colo...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Floating Runner Glides Above Dumbo Cobblestone in Angelic Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
They say that Photography captures the truth. That couldn't be more true than in this photograph, "Runner in Angelic Light". It captures both the physical truth and also the spiritu...
Category
1970s Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Snowy Night, Rainy Night in Manhattan with Orange Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A solitary hooded figure crosses a desolate Manhattan street as light snow and rain come down. For 54 years, Mitchell Funk has been chronicling the effects of light on form; here, h...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Downtown Manhattan Skyline with Graffiti Wall, Architectural Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The towering glass skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan are framed by a colorful rooftop graffiti wall in this captivating photograph by street photographer Mitchell Funk .
The fine art p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Pigment
Frenzied Pedestrians at Crosswalk Times Square - Street Photography Literally
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk nabs the frenetic energy of Times Square, where the streets are as over-stuffed as the billboards. They are one and the same and powered by an ele...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Spire in Golden Light Intersected with Airplane, Art Deco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An uncanny juxtaposition of sleek design. The bold geometric forms of the Chrysler Building Spire are set against the equally sleek lines of a contempo...
Category
2010s Art Deco Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Free Spirited Asian Female Dancing Outdoors against Green Background
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A young woman expresses an internal moment of joy and free expression as she strikes a spontaneous dance pose in Central Park. The scene is a captured moment by street photographer M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Portrait of a San Francisco Cable Car Soaked in Bronze Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sailboats , Marina District, San Francisco - Blue Water , Blue Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Timeless Cherry Blossoms in Central Park Pre-War Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Abstract City - Ephemeral Golden Building New York Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Abstract City - Ephemeral Golden Building New York Architecture
Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precisely designed at the same time? Mitchell Funk says yes. He brings fine...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Art Deco in Minimalist Composition, Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
As with most of Mitchell Funk's street photography, his images are the opposite of sloppy shoot and grab. He brings the compositional exactitude of studio photography outdoors. In "Chrysler Building...
Category
2010s Art Deco Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Foggy San Francisco Skyline with Ship - Impressionist Misty Blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
San Francisco Skyline Blue Sky and One Big Cloud, Landscape Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dreamy Romantic Sunset over Ottawa Canada - Red and Oranges
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Two light sources reveal that this is not a straight shot. As a pioneer of multiple-exposure photography, "Romantic Sunset over Ottawa Canada" is typical of Mitchell Funk's experime...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Blooming Magnolia Tree In Spring, Central Park New York City in Pinks and Blues
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Pink and Blue colors caress a long park bench with magnolia tree and petals on the ground In Central Park.
Shipping should be around $100. This archival color photograph by fine art ...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Manhattan from Long Island City, Fine Art Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed - Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Multiple Exposure of Colorful Flowers St. Patrick's Cathedral
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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 ...
Category
1970s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Muscular Nude Man on Dreamy Surreal Road to Destiny - Primal Man in Nature
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A hunched-over nude man on an endless sunset road conjures up big themes. Time, distance, life, death, rebirth, and infinity are weaved together in a purposely enigmatic and dreamli...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
All American Favorites: Husky Dogs and Clint Eastwood in Times Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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 ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dinosaur Parade
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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
Category
Early 2000s Realist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Manhattan Window Reflections in Red and Blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"Messiah is Hear" with Godly Light, Celestial Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Green Dog, Animal Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Green Dog is photographed so that it is representational and abstract at the same time. The photograph is signed dated, numbered, 3/15 lower right, another...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Snowstorm in Central Park by Mitchell Funk Winter Scene Monochomatic
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A dot of red in a sea of white captured by veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk. The sub-text of this image is that in one of the world's most crowded places a person can be su...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Poetic Light Skims off Tennis Court with Running Dog
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dawn's skimming light illuminates a New York City urban park and is captured from a high vantage point. The colors and long shadows make the image as abstract as it is representation...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bird Party on a New York Water Tower
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Spiritual Hare Krishna Central Park, Consciousness is the Original Energy
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
1970s Street Art Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Head Shop East Village New York City, Hippie Era
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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 ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lonely Looking Wide Eyed Dog in a Car Window
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Dessert Road to Infinity in the American West
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An endless road is pictured in a timeless landscape. As the road winds through the vast expanse of the American West, the grandeur of the surrounding landscape minimizes a solitary c...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jazz Trumpet Player by Mitchell Funk, Soulful Rainbow of Color Magenta Blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered lower right recto Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available. This work is printed on fine art Hahnemuhle paper. The color will vary ...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Figures on the Steps of Bryant Park with Caravaggio Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
1970s Street Art Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Old New York Bar with Ballantine Beer Neon Sign
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Moody image of a man looking out while the photographer looks in. The picture is organized in a composition of alternating floating faces and floating signs. This work also represen...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Mid Century Bar and Grill Neon Sign - Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Vestiges of a bygone era, a funky old original neon sign acts as a beacon to the thirsty. Chromogenic archival print. Signed and dated on lower r...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Painted Ladies Victorian Architecture, Alamo Square San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Famous Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a colorful image of the classic scene of San Francisco's colorful Victorian Architecture. This is no...
Category
2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Two African American Women Shine in Pink and Orange on Easter Day Parade
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Punchy pink and outrageous orange outfits shine as brightly as the subject smiles in this street photograph taken on Fifth Avenues Easter Day Parade.
Signed, dated and numbered 2/15,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
White Doves over New York City Bethesda Fountain in the Snow Romantic
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Crown of Chrysler Building with Sunburst, Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 - Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer". He was color when color wasn't considered art.
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, un...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
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.