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Mitchell Funk Color 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
Chrysler Building in Colorful Multiple Exposure - A Triumph of Color and Design
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Color Photographer Mitchell Funk experiments with multiple in-camera exposures of the Chrysler Building, producing a triumph of color and design in motion. No less than t...
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1990s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Chrysler Building in New York Skyline Out-of-Focus
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
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1970s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Ducks In Frozen Pond In Snowy Central Park, New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Gapstow Bridge in a snow blizzard in Central Park. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/15, lower right recto. Ot...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Twin Towers, World Trade Center in Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An iconic view of the Twin Towers shortly after completion are depicted with an angelic light. Signed dated and numbered on lower right, 3/15 printed later, on Hahnemuhle Paper Oth...
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1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Brooklyn Heights
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Warm late afternoon light illuminates a view of Mid-Town Manhattan from Brooklyn Heights. The supertalls of New York are lined up like soldiers at attention and are framed by the glo...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

San Francisco Bay Bridge in Fog, Color Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
It's a moody and original account of an iconic American view. Dots of red for taillights become an abstract pattern in the foreground, while silhouetted pedestrians punctuate the com...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Painted Ladies Victorian and Edwardian houses of San Francisco, Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Painted Ladies of Alamo Square are an icon of San Francisco. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures them in a quintessential beautiful way. The images is a contrast between ...
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2010s American Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Psychedelic Portrait of a Young Hippie with Manipulated Color, Kali
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
As a progenitor of special effects photography and experimental photography in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Mitchell Funk employed a variety of non-digital techniques to achieve ...
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1970s Abstract Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Wherever you Look, You See the Chrysler Building: Lower East Side
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Wherever you look, you see the Chrysler Building, which is particularly true from the Lower East Side. Street Photograph Mitchell Funk isolates a red pre-war parking sign from a busy...
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Early 2000s American Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Vintage Red Ferrari in Florence, Italy - Race Cars, Red Sports Cars
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A cluster of vintage red Ferraris lounge on displayed in a square in Florence, Italy. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk was struck by the unexpected site and documented the scene em...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Sailboats: Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Quintessential view of the Palace of Fine Arts with the picturesque San Francisco Bay and an armada of sailboats. Signed dated and numbered 2/15...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Twin Towers
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
On an assignment from the Port Authority of New York in 1975, Photographer Mitchell Funk was given access to the roof of Tower II of the World Trade Center. From that high vantage p...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Lower East Side
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Lower East Side. Beyond a 19th-century vermilion brick facade and standing proud and tall in a hazy New York City sky, we see The Ch...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Surreal Gas Station on a Foggy Night with Green Lights. Close Encounters
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The same year, the iconic science fiction movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released, visionary still photographer Mitchell Funk shot this SciFi-like image. It's of an un...
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1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Miami Beach, Art Deco South Beach Ocean Drive,
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dazzling colors express the fun and exciting night light of the famous tropical beach resort Signed dated lower right, numbered on lr recto. 3/15 printed later, unframed. other siz...
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1990s Art Deco Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Signs and Shapes Primary Colors , Modern Photography Cover by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Modern Photography Cover , August 1978 ( Editors flipped the image. The correct way is yellow arrows on bottom Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15, Unf...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Dumbo - Gold Brooklyn Bridge Cobblestone Street
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
What Brooklyn was like 51 years ago. Mitchell Funk brings new solutions to color photography in his use of golden light to transform a scene from a dull document into a beautiful a...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Inkjet

Old New York, Brooklyn Heights Promenade with Brooklyn Queens Expressway
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A unique view of The Brooklyn Heights Promenade is shot with magical golden late afternoon light shot in 1972 . The work has not only optic...
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1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Inkjet

Colorful Field of Flowers with Redhead Child - East Hampton Like Monet
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Twin Towers, World Trade Center in Gold
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The World Trade Centers in its most captured in it's most simplified form. The buildings are reduced to just two columns of glowing gold. Mitchell Funk has been famous for his interp...
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1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet

" Hello. I'm a Pigeon" - Golden Facade with Red Eye Pigeon in Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
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2010s Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Twin Towers, World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan Bathed in Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Late afternoon golden light reflects off the metallic facade of the Twin Towers, turning them into two graphic shapes that tower above the lower Manhattan skyline. Glittering reflect...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

San Francisco Victorians Painted Ladies San Francisco, Alamo Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
San Francisco Victorians Painted Ladies explode with color and charm in this graphic depiction. Direction light enhances the ornate details and heightens the color saturation whil...
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2010s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Williamsburg
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In 1974, wherever you looked, you could see the Chrysler Building. In this image, from Williamsburg, the distinctive Art Deco spire of the Chrysler Building peeks its head out above ...
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1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Winston. Super Long Taste, Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This was shot just a few blocks north of the world trade center site. In the 1970's there were still 19th century walk up buildings, including this one that hosts a cigarette Billboard Signed...
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1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Vintage Blue Coca-Cola Coke Sign Coney Island
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 - Nostalgic old Coney Island Coke signs with a glympse of the rollercoaster create a bold and powerful abstraction Signed, d...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet

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...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Black Hippie with Blond Afro, Washington Square Park - Henri Ghent Black Curator
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In 1969, weekends at Bethesda Fountain were a gathering place for the radical, glamorous, and hip people of the time. Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were regular speakers there. Po...
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1960s Street Art Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

New York Stock Exchange with American Flag - American Capitalism
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The symbol of American Capitalism is cloaked in the symbol of American Freedom. A monumental American Flag drapes the shiny facade of the New York Stock Exchange. Bright light illu...
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2010s American Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Old New York, Brooklyn Heights Promenade with Brooklyn Queens Expressway
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. A unique view of The Brooklyn Heights Promenade is shot with magical golden late afternoon light shot in 197...
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1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Inkjet

Timeless Staten Island Ferry and Statue of Liberty at Sunset in New York Harbor
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk captures a timeless image of New York scene in a fresh way. The unorthodox composition leaves the center of the picture vacant, leaving the two subjects on the extreme edges of the picture plane. The old State Island...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Sabrett Hot Dog Vendors, Times Square, Golden Light, Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A pushcart street vendor selling hot dogs is somehow transformed into something bigger. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the scene in extreme golden light. As a result, ...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Old Las Vegas, Fremont Street Neon Signs, Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This is the greatest and most iconic picture and vintage Las Vegas even done. This classic view of downtown neon signs of Las Vegas before the wrecking ball demolished one of Americ...
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1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Autumn in Central Park with Fall Foliage
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Clearly, the most beautiful time to be in Central Park is during the Autumn when leaves turn from green to vibrant golds, rich browns, saturated reds, and warm dreamy yellows. This ...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Red Brick Factory Long Island City with Empire State Building in Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk's photograph of a Red Brick Factory in Long Island City is as much about color-field theory as it is a document of a brightly painted factory facade. Additionally, Fun...
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1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Cherry blossoms Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An idyllic Post impressionism photograph charms your eyesballs with a charmingly rustic scene amazingly in the middle of New York City. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on ...
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Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Old Freemont Street Neon, Las Vegas
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $1000. This is the quintessential image of a bygone era. Old Las Vegas is captured with glowing neon signs set against a dramatic desert sunset. Signed and ...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

San Francisco Cable Car at Sunset - Golden Haze
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The quintessential symbol of San Francisco is small in the picture frame but still is the central focus of the composition. Mitchell Funk's photograph of a Cable Car is as unexpecte...
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1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Las Vegas Neon Signs Fremont Street, Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An abstract view of the classic Las Vegas Neon signs on Fremont Street at sunset. Bold reds, pinks, and blues work with the dramatic Nevada sunset. Th...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

New York City Street Art: Literally - Hot Pink Umbrella - Like Rothko
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Futuristic Vision: Sci Fi Outer Space Cosmos Celestial Abstraction
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
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1970s Futurist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Vintage Motels Signs Las Vegas Strip
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered on lower right, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
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Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Billionaires Row from Central Park Reservoir with Magical Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Photographer Mitchell Funk revisits many popular tourist locations and shoots them in a way that perhaps millions of tourists never imagined. In "Billionaires Row from Central Park Reservoir...
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2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Path in Central Park. Negative Color
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of more the 10 different styles of Color Photography. This very early experimentation with negative color combined with colored filters yields a romantica...
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1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

San Francisco Victorians Painted Ladies San Francisco, Alamo Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
San Francisco Victorians Painted Ladies explode with color and charm in this graphic depiction. Direction light enhances the ornate details and heightens the color saturation whil...
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2010s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Empire State Building Magenta Architecture Manhattan Skyline, Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Two New York City architectural icons juxtaposed with each other in a magenta sky. The Empire State Building and the Twin Towers shot before a Manhattan building boom gives a clear ...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Manhattan Baseball field with Running Dog - Green Lawn
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A baseball field becomes a color field like painting with wide horizontal bands of day-glo green, earthy ocher and cool grey. Signed and dated on lower...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Manhattan Bridge, Empire State Building, Landscape Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A golden Empire State Building sits comfortably inside the center arch of the Manhattan bridge as if that space was designed for it. Precise composition combined with magical late...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Statue in Central Park With Golden Late Afternoon Light, by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Statue coming out trees in winter with beautiful light, New York City Signed dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed, printed later - Printed on Ha...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Bow Bridge Row Boats in Central Park - Cerulean Blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

African American Youth With Water Reflections - Self Reflection
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
"Self Reflection " In the early 1970's Mitchell Funk was a trailblazer of color photography. In this stunning portrait the photographer merges naturalism and representation with abst...
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1970s Conceptual Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Bowery Bum's Bottles
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto. Edition 3 of 15, Unframed. Other size available , Printed later Still life of cheap boose bottle created by a homeless person in the Bowe...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Cable Car Passing Through Russian Hill Neighborhood, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Cable car on San Francisco street with Bay Bridge in the background. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/15, lower r...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Inkjet

American Flag in Times Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
American Flag in Times Square signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso 2/15, Unframed size 29 x 43 other size available
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Groovy Portrait. Hippy at Psychedelic Head Shop St. Mark's Place, East Village
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Groovy portrait of a hippy in from of a Head Shop in St. Mark's Places, East Village. In the 1970s, color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, ...
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1970s American Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Bow Bridge Central Park New York City in Spring
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Idyllic late afternoon moment where soft light brings out the delicate colors of early spring in Center Park. Signed, Dated, number Lower left 4/15 recto, unframed, other sizes ava...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Art Deco Ocean Drive - Neon South Beach at Night by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Veteran Photographer Mitchell Funk creates a vibrantly expressive image of Miami Beach's Ocean Drive. The blur color and punchy red sky and bleeding Art Deco Neon signs are the visu...
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1990s Art Deco Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Staten Island Ferry in New York Harbor with Orange light on Statue of Liberty
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This is a classic image of the Staten Island Ferry in New York Harbor bathed in Golden light with the Statue of Liberty in semi-silhouette. The image was shot over 50 years ago but s...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Mitchell Funk color photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Mitchell Funk color photography available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of color 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, red and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Mitchell Funk in paper, archival paper, archival 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 color photography, so small editions measuring 27 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Carol Inez Charney, Lucille Khornak, and Gerard Giliberti. Mitchell Funk color 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.

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