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
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
Street People Bowery - New York City's "Skid Row - Bum Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
For decades the Bowery as the home of a huge vagrant population in New York City. This 1970 portrait captures a derelict with piercing blue eyes that echos his blue state of mind a...
Category
1970s Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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
Street Art New York City in Pink and Green
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Art is today's dominant contemporary aesthetic. It abounds every day and in on potentially everything. Colorful chairs and tables are complemented by colorful wall murals in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Airplane in Surreal Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Surreal Photography in the Sky - Mitchell Funk brings the compositional precision of studio photography to street photography. Unlike most street p...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building with Gold Light and Silver light, Architectural Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Precise composition with magical late light is a hallmark of Mithcell Funk's work.
Signed, dated and numbers Edition 3 /15 lower right. Printed later, unframed, other size availab...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Volleyball in Central Park with Golden Light at the Magic Hour - Impressionist
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New Yorkers are captured in leisure time with a magical golden rim light that transforms the subjects into shapes.
Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes avail...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Foggy San Francisco Skyline with Ship - Impressionist Misty Blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
One of the defining characteristics of Mitchell Funk's work is how he shoots with light. In "Foggy San Francisco Skyline with Ship," Funk takes light into a new realm and in doing so...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
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 Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
San Francisco Cable Car, California Street at Sunset with Golden Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Magical light illuminates an icon of a magical city.
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 3 of 15, Unframed Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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
Chrysler Building Top , Art Deco Architecture New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
It's the epitome of Art Deco Architecture. The top of the Chrysler Building is lit by golden light in this photograph of a classic New York City scene. Photographer Mitchell Funk s...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Manhattan Street Scene with Neon.
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
At dusk in Manhattan, a restaurant facade turns red and yellow from the exterior neon light. Veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk captures a moment when the snowy skies open ...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist 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
Dust bowl Texas Sunset with Dramatic Sky Windmill - Orange and Yellow landscape
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
While on assignment in 1980 for a Life Magazine story on drought in Texas, Mitchell Funk encountered this vast landscape near Wichita Falls. A windmill with a wood fence and barn...
Category
1980s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Multiple Exposure - Rich Magenta
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In-camera Multiple Exposure using colored gels and negative color.
Eye-popping and optically stimulating interpretation of New York skyscapers.
Sig...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Art Deco Movie Theater Marquee - Color Field Painting Meet Photography, Abstract
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A marquee for an Art Deco Movie theater in Denton, Texas is photographed with meticulous precision by street photographer Mitchell Funk. Funk's approach...
Category
1980s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival 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
Elevated View Of Las Vegas At Night With Moonlit Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Luxor Hotel&Casino and Las Vegas skyline at night.
Shipping should be around $100. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Museum Mile, Umbrella Abstraction
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 5/15, Unframed, other sizes available
Category
2010s Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Old Las Vegas Dunes Hotel Neon
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk was a trailblazer in shooting neon signs with dramatic angles, acute compostion and powerful color. Although this is a nocturnal image it has vibrant life energy. ...
Category
1980s Expressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Pastel Alley In North Beach, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Colorful houses on Fresno Street in the North Beach district of San Francisco.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/1...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Inkjet
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
San Francisco Victorian House in Colorful Red Yellow and Blue, Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Is this colorful Victorian in San Francisco a painting or a house? It's both. Veteran photographer Mithcell Funk documents the painted house in a precise composition to highlight i...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Road, Monument Valley, Sci-fi Photography, Science Fiction
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elevated View Of Women With Umbrella Walking On Scattered Leaves
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
High angle view of women with umbrella on New York City street.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/15, lower right...
Category
2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
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 ...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Fremont Street Neon. Old Las Vegas, 1974
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This photograph is of old Last Vegas - The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974
The work is signed, dated number lower right 4/15. It's printed later, unframed and
other sizes are available.
Before one of America's most iconic streets was desecrated into a mall, Fremont street was a wonderland of classic casino signs...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Red and Purple Tulips Flowers abstraction in Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, printed later, other sizes available Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer"...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
South Beach, Miami Beach
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
South Beach, Miami Beach is captured at the precise moment where the color in the sky is echoed by the color in the streetscape Signature: Signed , dated l...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park in Snow with Dreamy Midtown Skyline
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto. Edition 3 of 15, Unframed. Other size available
Another version of this was on the cover of New York Magazine.
Mitchell Funk is a pionee...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Miami Demolition
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New buildings rise as old ones fall, and a new Miami is created. Shot on Brickell Avenue. The Dupont Plaza Hotel in a stage os dismantling is seen in the left corner
Signed, dated ...
Category
1990s American Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ocean Drive, South Beach, Irene Marie Models Moody Night Neon by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The classic view of Miami Beach's Ocean Drive with reflections is captured by veteran Color Photographer Mithcell Funk. The image overflows with soft bleeding colors that melt into...
Category
1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Colony Hotel Ocean Drive, South Beach at Night Tropical Neon Reds and Neon Blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Tropical Colors abound in this photography of South Beach. Ocean Drives Neon light show is in full display in this Mitchell Funk photograph. This archival color photograph by fine ...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Staten Island Ferry in Magenta New York Harbor by Mitchell Funk, Color Field
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New York Photographer Mithcell Funk creates an image with a broad expanse of mostly flat magenta. His representation of space is flat and simplified. In the center of the picture pla...
Category
1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Blue Duck Fantasy - Fairy Tale World - Post-Impressionist Blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Blue Duck Fantasy - Fairy Tale World - Signed dated numbered 2/15 on lower right, other size available, unframed, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Ocean Drive In Miami Beach, by Mitchell Funk, Landscape Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Art Deco buildings in the South Beach area of Miami Beach.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/15, lower right recto...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Times Square in Pieces
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Billboard fragments of breasts, cropped heads of people, helter-skelter pedestrians, heroic bronze statues and tourist bus riders form a neo-cubist composition where disparate elemen...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Dumbo - Gold Brooklyn Bridge Cobblestone Street
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
What Brooklyn was like 47 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...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
New York Fog with Statue of Liberty Orange Glow
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Early morning light caresses a semi-silhouetted Staten Ferry Boat as it passes a fog-enshrouded Statute of Liberty in New York a sunset in golden-o...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, 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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sheep Meadow in Central Park with Billionaires' Row Buildings
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This luminous photograph is of the Sheep Meadow which is a vast 15-acre verdant field in Central Park. It's enjoyed by sunbathers, frisbee throwers and fun-seekers who physically g...
Category
2010s American Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet, 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...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Old New York Bar with Ballantine Beer Neon Sign
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Moody image of a man looking out while the photographer looks in. The picture is organized in a composition of alternating floating faces and floating signs. This work also represen...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, 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...
Category
2010s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Running Horse at Sunset - Dave Grusin Album Cover
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. Dave Grusin – One Of A Kind Album Cover, 1977
Signed and dated and numbers 2/15 lower right recto, unframed, printed later, other sizes available
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Category
1970s American Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
$4,200 Sale Price
25% Off
Ocean Drive Miami Beach Hotels South Beach, Color Photography, Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Quintessential South Beach's Ocean Drive image where neon lights of the street merge with nature's lights in the sky.
The resulting image of moody magentas and radiant blues is an ...
Category
2010s Street Art Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Noble Lion at Sunset
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. ,Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, un...
Category
1980s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Parking Rates
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed, Dated, Numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes available. unframed
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Red Porsche
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell extracts color from a seemingly boring landscape. Eye-popping saturated primary colors, and an unexpected camera angle defines his visual style and springboards him into a c...
Category
1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Mid- Century Star View Motel Fremont Street Las Vegas, Landscape Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Man painting vintage motel sign in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are available. The work is unframed...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
$4,640 Sale Price
20% Off
Kids with Colorful Clothes in Brooklyn Park - Color Photography Pioneer
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal is to make color photography full of color. In this image, notice how the colors of the kids...
Category
1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Monochromatic Golden Gate Bridge in Fog, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
It's a moody moment of monochromatic minimalism. Iconic San Francisco is depicted with utter simplicity. The Golden Gate bridge is stripped of color and form and is reduced to a f...
Category
1990s Minimalist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Camel Caravan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto, 3/15 Unframed, printed later, other sizes available.
Mithcell Funk is a pioneer of Sci-Fi Photography a...
Category
1980s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Statue of Liberty In New York Harbor with Burst of Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Staten Island Ferry with beautiful clouds in New York Harbor.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/15, lower right re...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco Bay with Sailboats
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
San Francisco's most iconic scene is capture in Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco Bay with Sailboats.
Popular Photography Giant Billboard in Times Square on 48th Street.
Popular Ph...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
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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.