Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography

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 ...

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...

The work is signed, dated, and numbered 4/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is unframed and printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper. Mi...

Architecture becomes an abstract design statement as seen through the lens of Mitchell Funk Striking graphic design with found elements is a signature style of Mitchell Funk. He brin...

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...

Signed, dated numbered Edition 2 of 15, lr verso - Other sizes available, Printed Later. Unframed, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper

A foreground stone wall structure of a repeating vertical shapes alternating with openings is mimicked by the similar but more majestic vertical shapes of the Mid-Town Manhattan skyl...

The real street art in New York City is literally the lines painted on the street pavement. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk expands the boundaries of the popular art term by captu...

The Chrysler Building rises like a rocket ship in a glittering sky, conveying a sense of boundlessness. An aura of soft light caresses the scene, giving it a touch of mystical signif...

Since 1969 Mitchell Funk has been photographing the Chrysler Building in dramatic and novel ways. This recent image incorporates the Chrysler Building's pointy neighbor, the supertall skyscraper One Vanderbilt. Its modern spire harmonizes with the 1930 soaring Art Deco icon. Notice how Funk incorporates accents of yellow that offsets the twilight blue. The entire image is accented by a cozy moon that consummates the composition. Signed and dated on the lower right, numbered on verso, 3/15 other size available, unframed, Printed Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper. Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography" In 1970 he participated in one the first " Color Photography" show...

Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 3/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper

Sometimes the simplest images are the most complex. Peacock Displaying Blue and Green Plumage is more than a bird portrait. It's a portrait of a bird as a living work of abstract ar...

Surreal Fantasy Album Cover Beck & Sanborn for CTI records. This image is signed, dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are available. The work is unframed and p...

An everyday street scene yields an unexpectedly delightful moment. Charming young Debutantes crowned with tiaras lift their elaborate formal dresses off the asphalt as they cross a ...

The patriotic colors of Old Glory are described in vibrating neon. Cars in the foreground reflect the striped pattern, while faces and figures punctuate the scene. Signed and dated ...

Signed, Dated, number Lower left 3/15 recto, unframed, another size available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of "Color Photography...

Abstract view of downtown Fremont Street, Las Vegas. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is unframed and prin...

Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 4/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Photo-Abstract impressio...

New York Street Abstract . This is actually a straight shot. Taken from a high angle looking down, the photographer uses reflective neon street light...

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...

A vast and wide view of one of the world's most densely populated cities shows only one person. A lone runner surrounded by white snow is framed by New York's Central Park South sky...

The New New York Skyline with Chrysler Building is depicted in shimmering sliver light and set against a deep cobalt blue sky. It incorporates the newly constructed supertalls: One...

Mitchell Funk. He was Color when Color wasn't Cool. Conceptualized and executed in 1971, when color photography was not recognized as fine art, this group of abstract, negative colo...

In 1995, wherever you looked, you could see the Chrysler Building. In this image, from the Weehawken, New Jersey vantage point, the iconic spire of the Chrysler Building peeks its he...

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...

Local color comes alive and becomes a living work of art in this stunning image. Signed dated and numbered lower right recto. Edition 3 of 15, printed late...

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...

Taos Mission, New Mexico San Francisco de Asis in Negative Color - The work is Signed dated and numbered lower right, 2/15, Printed Later, and Unframed Printed on Hahnemühle Fine ...

Unseen New York conjured up images of secret hideaways, architectural details, or some undiscovered treasure. Mitchell Funk gives a new twist to the term "unseen". His subject matt...

Urban Graffiti Art Wall Painting photograph on New York Street has an onlooker who looks like the art he's looking at. The image is a synthesis of art and viewer. The yellow abstract pattern on the viewer's shirt echos the yellow patterns on the buildings. The photograph celebrates the Graffiti Artists of New York. Late golden light enhances all-over abstract patterns and integrates the old architecture with the new street art...

Two plates are placed in the foreground and shot with a 20mm lens again the Manhattan skyline that gives an unearthly quality with common objects. Primary colors of the yellow and r...

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...

The Empire State Building serves as a backdrop as snow flakes create wonderland of soft reds and blues. Signed and dated on lower right, numbere...

Cover. Photomethods Magazine, March, 1982, Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframe

The history of Sci-fi art and illustration has had a rich and storied past. Generation of illustrators and painters have rendered their fantastic ideas on paper and canvas. The decades of the 1920’s - 1940’s saw the imaginative but crudely drawn pulp magazine gouaches of Frank R Paul...

Walk into the lobby of the Chrysler Building, and it does not look like this. To the visitor's eye, it is somewhat dark and has a tight, constrained feel to it. Photographer Mitche...

With an upward zoom and a slow exposure, Photographer Mitchell Funk reimagines one of the world's most iconic landmarks. The photograph is a lyrical evocation of a normally cold stre...

Conceptual Road Image. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is unframed and printed later. Printed on Hahnemü...

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...

Mitchell Funk photographs a child's Rocking Horse Ride in the snow. The inherent beauty of this moving sculpture for kids is enhanced as flakes of w...

Psychedelic Portrait Multiple Exposure Zoom with Female Profile, This work is as fresh and contemporary-looking today as it was radically innovative when it was done in 1970 Signed...

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,...

Abstract view of San Francisco Transamerica Pyramid. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is unframed and pri...

New York City street photography. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is unframed and printed later. Printed...

The work is signed and dated and numbered on the lower right, Edition: 3/15 Unframed, Other sizes available. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper

Refurbishing of 42nd Street in mid '90s. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is unframed and printed later. ...

Eagle Gargoyles On top Of Chrysler Building In golden light. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 4/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is unframed...

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...

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...

The work is signed, dated, and numbered 4/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is unframed and printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper. Mi...

Upward view of house on Russian Hill in San Francisco. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is unframed and p...

Row of art deco buildings with warm early morning light. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is unframed ...

Just when you think there are no new, fresh views of the Manhattan Skyline, Mitchell Funk enters with a dazzler. He has been shooting New York City for over 55 years, and the present...

Architectural detail of windows with golden light on Las Vegas casino. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It i...

Abstract impressionistic view of New York City at night. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is unframed and ...

Old and new architectural contrast in golden light, New York City. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is u...

Abstract view of Manhattan Bridge surrounded by modern architecture. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is...

Skyscrapers On A Smokey Sunrise. NYC. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 4/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is unframed and printed later. Pr...

Snow in the abstract. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 4/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is unframed and printed later. Printed on Hahnemüh...

Chairs against wall at old motel in Red Rock Canyon Nevada. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes available. It is unframed a...