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
Street Basketball with Angelic Light Burst in Gold
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Light jumps out. Players jump up. Light bounces off a window. Basketball bounces off a backboard. The interplay of extreme light and shadow makes "Street Basketball with Angelic Li...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
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
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jazz Musicians Saxophone and Trumpet Vibe in Red Swirl - Music is Color
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Color is Music, and Music is Color. Two Jazz Musicians strike a high note as a colorful red swirl visually expresses the vibe of the music. It's a red-hot moment, and photographer M...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vintage Las Vegas Golden Nugget Fremont Street at Night
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The classic neon signs of Freemont Street glow and beckon in this 1975 photograph by Mitchell Funk.
The camera angle, lighting, and composition tra...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vintage Car Against Colorful Striped Yellow Wall - Primary Colors
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
To a color photographer, color is a creative resource unto itself.
In a blandscape of dull grays and browns, the hyper-bright yellow wall with prim...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color 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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The San Remo Central Park West Framed by Cherry Blossoms Flowers
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A circle of cherry blossoms frames the two spires of the iconic San Remo. This is not a staged image. Photographer Mitchell Funk found the right location, angle, and arrangement of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Pink Orange Sunset on Hazy Moody Sky Billionaires Row like Monet Polluted Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Climate Change can be beautiful. Wildfires from Canada created an orange smoke field that blanked New York City. For a photographer, air pollution was an aesthetic gift. Perched on ...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Neon Signs Broadway Theater District in Dramatic Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden light skims off the facades on West 44th Street as Neon Lights create a second light source that beckons. Two of Broadway's most famous mainstays, Sardis Restaurant and The S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black Businessman Running Against a Colorful Background
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A black businessman is captured dashing down the street against a colorful wall. The image is slightly blurred, adding a sense of beauty and moodiness to the image and creating harm...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Joyful Jazz Trumpet Player in Silhouette Floating Orange Sunset Los Angeles
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
At sunset, a trumpeter strikes a high note above it all. The dreamy, out-of-focus lights of hip Los Angles represents his music in visual terms. Funk is ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street Photography of Eccentric Women with Colorful Cloths and Yellow Umbrellas
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street photograph of an eccentric woman with a brightly colored hat and colorful clothes pushing a baby carriage with a dog occupant. She stands in front of a window display with bri...
Category
2010s Mitchell Funk Color 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 Color 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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Saturated Blue Sky Small Town, Early Color Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Like William Eggleston, Mitchell Funk is an early trailblazer of color photography with unexpected images created in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This image shows a close-up of a ...
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1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
" 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...
Category
2010s Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Cherry Blossoms in Bloom, Urban Garden of Central Park with The San Remo
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The majestic Renaissance Revival San Remo Apartments act as a backdrop to Central Park's magnificent Cherry Blossom display. Under the colorful blooming tree, a sitting single femal...
Category
2010s Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Big Blue Waves Ocean District San Francisco - Visual White Noise
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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 ...
Category
1990s Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Cobblestone Road to Lower Manhattan Skyline in Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Magical golden light skims off a 19th-century cobblestone road that appears to lead into an equally antique-looking lower Manhattan skyline illuminated with golden light.
As a proge...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color 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 Color Photography
Materials
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...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Sanctuary of Peaceful Yellow Tulips Red Tulips Blooming in Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In this Mitchell Funk photograph, The Central Park Conservancy of Flowers is bursting into bloom with the seductive color of yellow tulips and red tulips. In the upper left-hand cor...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Primary Colors in Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Bright reds, yellows, blue and green stripes adorn a wall in lower Manhattan. Chairs of the same color scheme line the street and have an older woman with a scarf covering her face. ...
Category
1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Interracial Friends Lost in Thought in a Brooklyn Playground
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk uses of a 500mm telephoto lens to capture the two subjects lost in thought. Selective focus throws the background out of focus and creates a dreamy...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Debutantes in Formal Black Evening Dress with Tiara in Times Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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 ...
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2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Army Munitions Depot, Edgemont South Dakota - Life Magazine Assignment
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In 1984 Life Magazine was in full stride. Their photo editors sent photographers on location to document stories visually.
At the US Army Munitions Depot, Edgemont, South Dakota, Mit...
Category
1980s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Neon Bar Sign Glow on Moody Manhattan Nocturne
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Manhattan Nocturne by Mitchell Funk. The colors are the music of the night. The image is a stunning example of the artist’s blending of the abstract and representational.
Signed, ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Colorful Paint Cans in Red, Orange, Blue and Turquoise
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A pile of empty and discarded colorful paint cans inadvertently becomes an artful abstract still life in itself. Documented through the keen lens of st...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Surreal City - Manhattan Magical Moment
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The alignment of the planets comes together in a perfect magical moment. A man sets foot on a terrace - an airplane comes into frame - golden light strikes the perfect pitch - atmosp...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Posing Pigeons. Manhattan in Neutral Colors Grey and Gray Birds
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A formal and highly balanced composition based on the random positions of pigeons caught the eye of street photographer Mitchell Funk. Each pigeon has it's own pose and personality. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street Photography with Chairs and Pedestrians
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Master of design, light, and composition, Street Photographer Mitchell Funk outdoes himself with this visually intriguing image of street patterns created by raking light. The line...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color 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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival 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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Graffiti Street Art Photograph in Red and Green
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Graffiti-clad New York City Street scene with wall shot by veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk in his trademark colorful style. In Funk's oeuvre co...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color 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 Color Photography
Materials
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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Snow in Central Park Billionaire Row - Monochromatic Grey and Blue
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 d...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Bike Rider at Sunset and the Karate Kid - Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on the lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed, Printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper.
Mitchell Funk is a p...
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2010s Street Art Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
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...
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2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, 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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lower Manhattan Skyline in Gold Light with Moon. New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New York City seen uniquely through the artful lens of Mitchell Funk. We all have seen images of the financial district in Lower Manhattan but this original in a very artful way.
T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Moondog in Infrared Against Black Rock CBS Building, Street People
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Moondog, was a blind American composer and musician. He was a fixture in front of the CBS building Black Rock on 6th Avenue and 5nd street. Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tra...
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1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Unexpected Billboard from The High Line Chelsea
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An unexpected detail of a green billboard is shown occupying the full lower left-hand quadrant of a city scene composition. It was shot by street photographer Mitchell Funk from The High Line...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, 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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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, ...
Category
1970s American Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Conversation: Late Afternoon Impressionist Light in Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal: make color photography full of color in what was then a nascent ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Sun Reflector with old men in the park. Vintage New York Street Scene
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The glorification of light was an early theme Mitchell Funk employed in his street photography. Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
African American Youth With Water Reflections
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the early 1970's Mitchell Funk was a trailblazer of color photography. In this stunning portrait the photographer merges naturalism and representation with abstraction. A candid s...
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1970s Conceptual Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Red Wall Lower Manhattan Street Scene - Early Color Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This image is as much about the color of the red wall and the psychedelic colors of the female's shirt street as the three figures who populate the composition. Color is a co-subject...
Category
1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Times Square Theater Posters Morosco Theatre. FORTY CARATS
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 53 years ago in 1969 it was quit...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
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.