Mitchell Funk Abstract 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
The Wall has Eyes - Street Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
2/15 Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dogs in Snow, Monochromatic Colors, Abstract Photography by Michell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 other size available, unframed, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Blue Landscape
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Cover Popular Photography, May 1978, Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sentinel Building, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Warm light reflects off the Sentinel Building distinctive facade creating a counterpoint to the cool greens and blues and evoking a rich visual experiences of color that is commens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Life Magazine Cover July 1980, Mithcell Funk Lighthouse
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
alternative photo - done on assignment in Cape Hatteras
Signed lower right, numbered, 3/15 dated
Category
1970s American Modern Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fashion Model In Green, Street Photography of Abstract Wall Women Yellow Coat
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A fashionable woman in a solid yellow coat passes in front of an oversized Fashion Model On a Green Billboard on New York's Madison Avenue. In the foreground, an equally solid yello...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Manhattan Skyscraper with Silver Shimming Light and East River Boats
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Silver light reflects off an Upper East Side skyscraper as two industrial boats pass in aligned formation. But this is not a picture of a building and boat. The extreme lighting and...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Manhattan Art Deco Chrysler Building in Blue and White
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bethesda Fountain Dancing Waters in Central Park - Monochromatic Color
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dancing waters flow down from the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park. The water forms an energized abstract pattern in a monochromatic color scheme. Mitchell Funk's use of backlightin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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 Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Gathering of Birds on Wires In Miami
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Strong light illuminates an upward view of an exaggerated cluster of gathering birds. The birds' warm golden color in chiaroscuro contrasts with the soft blue tropical Miami sky and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
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 Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mystical Transcendent Orange Sunset Big Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Street Photography - Ephemeral Car Reflections
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
On a busy Manhattan street, unnatural light reflects off of windshields and forms a mind-bending abstraction of colors and shapes. In the background, four male mannequins stare at th...
Category
2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Deck Chair Casual Abstraction with Raking Light and Shadows
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Deck chairs randomly positioned on an Upper East Side balcony are captured by Photographer Mitchell Funk. Raking light produces abstract long shadows giving the overall arrangement of elements a casual abstract look. In the center of the composition is a yellow and green chair with colors...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bikini Window Abstraction Times Square - Urban Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Extreme late light darts down a street in Times Square. It illuminates a colorful and semi-abstract window display. A single female figure at the extreme right of the compostion sh...
Category
2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Human - Tree Fusion - ( Photographic Abstraction )
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
While in Central Park, Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a moment where a leafless tree trunk and a faceless human with a flowering hat have a symbiosis. They are both weird lookin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street Fashionista in Pink Ensemble on New York City Rainy Day
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photography meets Fashion Photography in this boldly graphic image of a stylish woman with an umbrella crossing the street. The composition is minimal as its color scheme is b...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street Art: Literally - Painted Manhattan From Above Abstract Patterns
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street photographer Mitchell Funk captures abstract street patterns in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Absorbing the influence of both the Color Field and Non-Objective painters, Funk ...
Category
2010s Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Duck, Turtles and Gold Fish in Central Park Pond Basking in Sun
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Noguchi Cube in Negative Color
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Generations ahead of his time, Mithcell Funk rejects straightforward documentary photography and interprets the Noguchi Cube in a style as fresh and inventive as the Cube itself.
It...
Category
1970s Futurist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Light Illuminates a Romantic Couple in Central Park - Amber and Orange
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden sunlight filters through the autumn trees to illuminate two lovers on a Central Park bench. As a popular tourist location, Central Park is endlessly photographed. But Mitch...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
A Paddling of Ducks on an Amber Cinnamon Pond
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Ducks float on a cinnamon pond in loose formation, forming an overall pattern. Their arrangement recalls the work of minimal artists of the 50s and 60s. Yet, a single duck breaks r...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Spire and McDonald's Graphic Red Sign
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Two Boots and an Umbrella - Red and Black Color Field Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Urban Landscape Golden Sky with Melting and Dissolving Glass Skyscraper
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Boy Playing with Bubbles In Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Tennis Court in Snow with Footprints Green and Wine Color Abstraction
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An aerial view looking down on a Manhattan tennis court is photographed so that it is representational and abstract at the same time.
The interplay of large areas of color, pattern...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
New York City Abstraction - Street Photography: Literally
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photography: Literally. From an elevated vantage point, Street Photographer Mitchell Funk shoots down on a busy midtown Manhattan street and composes the image so that it's as...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bird on a Ledge Impressionist Color Tudor City Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Chrysler Building Art Deco Spire at Night Abstraction
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Art Deco Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Impressionist Street Scene Manhattan in Snow - Reds and Greys
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Children's Playground Central Park in Impressionist Blue and Magenta.
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This image was shot in Central Park. Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the intoxicatingly beautiful optical effect of natural light as it skims off of wooden swings...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street People. Old Man On Park Bench New York City, Monochromatic
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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 1971, it was q...
Category
1970s Realist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Abandoned Homeless Man on the Steps of Bryant Park - Street Photography in Color
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 American Realist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Spire of the Chrysler Building in Silver, Manhattan Art Deco Skyscraper
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Chrysler Building, a New York art deco masterpiece, is framed by modern buildings in this carefully composed image by veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk.
Signed and dat...
Category
2010s Art Deco Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Brooklyn Bridge Multiple Exposure in Magenta and Blue, City Abstract
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the early 1970s, color photography was not really considered to be art by any standard. Mitchell Funk is one of the early trailblazers of color photography as fine art. In this 19...
Category
1970s Abstract Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Urban Street Scene, 9 West 57th Street in New York City, Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Famous 9 West 57th Street red sculpture anchors a New York City street photograph that is part representation and part abstract. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Story of a Street Light and a Bridge
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk creates an arresting image composed of contrasting elements. A common New York City street light morphs into a haunting abstraction while ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Silver Silos and Station Wagon, Abstract Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Abstract Landscape photography by Mitchell Funk with 1970's station wagon.
Signature: Signed, Dated, Numbers 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes available. unframed, printed late...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Young girl in an Couture Pink Dress, Fashion Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The interplay of light and shadow, greys and magenta transform a portrait of a flamboyantly dressed young girl into an optically engaging abstraction composed of alternating patterns...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Urban Art Bus Driver and Graffiti, Street Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street art comes to the intersection of street photography.
Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed, printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle Fi...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Flock of Birds over New York City Rooftops ( Abstract Photography )
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A flock of birds hovers above snow-covered Manhattan rooftops. The image is as much about an overall composition in abstract art as it is a document of group avian behavior. Signe...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Cute Dog Running in the Rain by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A cute dog with a ball in his mouth runs in the rain. Street Photographer Mithcell Funk, capture a decisive moment in a perfect composition of red and blue triangles. Funk is an...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Landscape Sci-Fi Landscape - Modern Photography Magazine Cover
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Aesthetically, this image is generations ahead of it's time. It looks so contemporary but was done in the early 1980's in the pre-digital ear. It was a Modern Photography Cover 198...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Manhattan Skyscraper Abstract Multiple Exposure, Kali, Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This trailblazing in-camera multiple exposures of New York buildings with the moon was done in 1972. It's not just an image that pushes the boundaries of visual imagery but it is a t...
Category
1970s Conceptual Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bethesda Fountain Bathed in Rain like Water Droplets - Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Iconic New York City scenes have been creatively documented by the insightful eye of veteran photographer Mitchell Funk for over 50 years. Cascading water droplets partially shroud ...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Running Dog in First Light with Long Shadows
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
First light skims across the schoolyard pavement creating long and dramatic shadows. A golden dog is captured running through the scene and blends in creating a de Chirico like a su...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bethesda Fountain with Out of Focus Figures
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Bethesda Terrace, Central Park's masterpiece gathering place is joyfully interpreted by master-of-light photographer Mitchell Funk. This archival col...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Landscape Sci-Fi Landscape - Modern Photography Magazine Cover
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Aesthetically, this image is generations ahead of it's time. It looks so contemporary but was done in the early 1980's in the pre-digital ear. It was a Modern Photography Cover 198...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Blue Buildings, New York 1970, Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This transcendent image by art photographer Mitchell Funk's "Blue Buildings, New York 1970" is generations ahead of its time. Executed in 1970, it pushed the boundaries of color pho...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fashionable woman's Green Stripes Echo Stripes of the Street
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A Dress Designer and a Street Engineers' graphic style collide in this caught Manhattan moment. In New York City art is everywhere. You can wear it and walk on it at the same time...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Brooklyn Bridge Multiple Exposure in Magenta and Blue, City Abstract
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the early 1970s, color photography was not really considered to be art by any standard. Mitchell Funk is one of the early trailblazers of color photography as fine art. In this ...
Category
1970s Abstract Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Ducks in Flight with Blue water Droplets
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The work is signed dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto with other sizes available, and unframed. The color of the photograph is quite subtle and will be rendered differently ...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Park Avenue Patterns in Red, Black and Yellow
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Bodlly juxtaposed areas of flat color defines the Fashionista's colorful dress pattern works in counterpoint to the yellow cabs on park avenue, Signed a...
Category
Early 2000s Art Deco Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Blue Landscape
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This image from the imagination of Mitchell Funk was the cover photograph for Popular Photography Magazine, May 1978, It is signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/1...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Plate Invasion - SciFi in Primary Colors - Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Yellow Flowers and Pink Flowers in Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Nature transforms into abstract colors and shapes as it's sculptured by a defining late light. Fine Art photographer Mitchell Funk exagerates color and uses color less as a means of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Pigment
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