Mitchell Funk Figurative 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
Hypnotic Dream-like Scene of Women - Surreal Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
With a nod to the surrealist painter Paul Delvaux, Street Photographer Mithcell Funk captures two differently dressed women in a dreamlike state. The lighting and architectural sett...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pink Flamingos Socializing with a Colorful Background
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Pink Flamingos are social animals. They gather in large groups and chat it up. Their gregarious natures is a benefit for photographers. Individually the bird is a living sculpture. A...
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1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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 Light " a unique and pioneering photograph. Taking in 1974, it was a rejection of contemporary color photography at the time, which was not concerned with light. This image by Funk is a glorification of light. As light strikes form, it becomes stylized and almost abstract, creating a new relationship between subject and style. An indication of the date this was taken is revealed by the old fashion TV antennas...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Skid Row Bowery Street Portrait - The Streets of New York - Photojournalism
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 1970, it was q...
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1970s Expressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
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...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Graffiti Wall with Little Green Man - Urban Art Sci- fi
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Against popular belief, there really are little green men populating New York City. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk, isolates an urban art wall painting in the looming above a park with people mulling around. It's a striking composition as with the central figure framed between windows. A small American flag...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Anti-Vietnam War Protesters Hippies in Central Park with American Flag
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An attractive ffemale Hippie in Central Park during an Anti-Vietnam War protest and sandwiched with another image of an American flag.
The print is signed...
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1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Figurative 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...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Nude man on Endless Surreal Arizona Road to Infinity
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shot on location Near Taos, New Mexico, 4 of an edition of 15, Signed, dated and number lower right recto, Other sizes available, unframed, printed later. Printed on Hahnemüh...
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1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
One Two Three - The Subway Riders
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
They are three distinctly different people. They are living in their own little personal world but yet share the same space. New Yorkers lost in thought and though apart they descen...
Category
2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Dogs are Part of the Landscape of Our Lives, II
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Running Dog with Long Shadows is an image filled with moving forms and patterns frozen in time. The flatness of the image is accentuated by the dog and his enlarged cast shadow, whi...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Surreal Yellow Nude with Eye
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Extreme close up of a eye combined with a full figure nude in a tight and graphic composition. It's an early in-camera multiple exposure using Ektachrome infra red film during the pr...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Skaters in Central Park at Sunset
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed, printed later
View of the Sheep Meadow looking south with the Central Park skyline...
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1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Synchronous Pedestrians - Three Figures Crosswalk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Three synchronous figures cross a Manhattan street just after a snow fall. The normally black pavement is turned light grey due to the salting of the street.
Mitchell Funk is a "Colo...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Panda Pandemonium Coney Island Teddy Bear
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Cute and cuddly Panda Bears lined are lined unexpectedly as their signature graphic black and white shapes interact with the surrounding colored walls.
Inkjet Archival Print
43 × 29...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Museum Mile, Manhattan Nocturne
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A movie is being shot on the streets of New York. High power "Klieg Light " blow out the background while street light act as fill. The rain pours down ...
Category
2010s Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elephants with tusks in Mexico, Life Magazine
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Done on assignment for Life Magazine, It was photographed outside Tampico Mexico. Elephants were transported to Mexico from for rehab after training in Oregon. The photographer and ...
Category
1980s American Realist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Golden Beach House East Hampton
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. Late golden light caresses the sand fences on East Hampton Beach. Signed, Dated, number Lower left 2/15 recto, unframed, other sizes available.
Mitch...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Silhouette of Running boy. Pink and Magenta Wall Guaymas Mexico
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This is an image generations ahead of its time in use of color and design.
It was shot on Kodachrome25 and manipulated with an analog device more than 50 years ago but looks state-...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Party Boots and Tutus in Hot Pink and DayGlo Green, Times Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. The girl's clothes are brighter than the gaudy neon lights of Times Square. Nonetheless, as a photograph image, it works. There is a symbiosis betwee...
Category
2010s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
New York City Marathon Runners Blur
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
His early color work anticipates developments in color photography by generations.
In 1970 he participated in one the first " Color Photography" shows at a major museum. Brooklyn Mus...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Silhouetted Lion on the planes of Africa at Sunset
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Striking image of lone Lion set against a dramatic colorful sunset of the animals domain. Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, other sizes available , printed ...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Joy, Happiness, Pleasure, Euphoria, Bliss, Ecstasy is a Jump
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A joyful moment preserved. A young woman is about to land on earth. She seems very happy about it.
Signed, Dated, number Lower left 3/15 recto, unframed, other size available
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sunbathers Miami Beach
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
People are reduced to patters when rows of sun worshipers are caught with a 105 mm lens.
Signed and dated lower right Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cable Car Silhouette at Sunset San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dreamy color scheme and reflections of light on the cable car tracks evokes an ethereal mood to this well know Nob Hill location. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Gritty Street Photography with Geometric Billboards Manhattan Street Scene
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A moment in gritty street photography is captured where street billboards and a solitary figure strike a perfect grid-like compositional balance.
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/15...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Mist at the Fountain - Impressionist Girl Relaxing like Georges Seurat
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A girl is shrouded in a golden mist of shimming water droplets emanating from a fountain. This image looks like something post-impressionist Georges Seurat would paint, but in realit...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative 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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fleeting Glance in Fleeting Light - Washington Square Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Veteran Street Photographer Mitchell Funks' signature style is to energize traditional photojournalism/ street photography with overly dramatic light, color, and composition. This wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Public Statues. Young Boy and Old Man in New York City Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s, senior citizens were fixtures on New York City park benches. In this image, golden light conveys the expressive nature of a disparate relationship between an old man an...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative 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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Pas de Deux - Romantic Tango Partner Dance in Central Park Bandshell
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Two Tango Dancers immersed in their art, strike-the-pose under the towering classical half down. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk was there at the perfect moment to capture a non...
Category
2010s Romantic Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chic Fashion Model with Fireworks Explosion of Color - Monochromatic
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A chic, high-fashion model clad in high heels and a chic hat holds a refreshing drink as she sits on a pedestal. She is depicted in silhouette as a burst of zoomed fireworks explode...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative 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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Two Dog Friends in Golden Light - French Poodle
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden Light defines two dogs as they have a head-to-head in a Manhattan park. Color Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the scene with a spontaneity and freshness from a rooftop van...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dogscape - Dog in Early Morning Light Beige Colors - Long Shadows
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dogscape New York City. First light skims across an upper East Side playground with fallen autumn foliage.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is s...
Category
2010s Street Art Mitchell Funk Figurative 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 Figurative 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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Noble Lion Silhouetted at Sunset, Animal Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available . P...
Category
1980s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Girl Looking Out - Landscape of the City - Landscape of Life
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Enter Mitchell Funk's light-filled world. A column of light isolates a girl who looking at something out of frame. The photograph could be a metaphor for self-absorption or ruminati...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Bethesda Fountain In Central Park With Sunburst
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Birds on Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, New York City.
Shipping should be around $100. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and ...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Eccentric Bulldog Portrait with Red Sweater in the Tenderloin, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Weirdness is not just restricted to people in San Francisco's notorious Tenderloin district. A proud and eccentric-looking dog hams it up for the lens of photographer Mitchell F...
Category
2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Silhouetted Lion on the planes of Africa at Sunset
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The striking image of lone Lion set against a dramatic colorful sunset of the animal's domain. Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, other sizes are available , ...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic 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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Covid-19 New York: Skateboarder on Empty Park Avenue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. Mitchell Funk
Covid-19 New York: Skateboarder on Empty Park Avenue
Inkjet Archival Print
43 × 29 in
Signed, dated lower and numbered 3/15 lower rig...
Category
2010s Modern Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Trumpet Jazz Musician and Statue of Liberty
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The photo represents a synthesis of Americana. Jazz meets the Statue of Liberty during a perfect sunset.
Signed, dated lower and numbered 3/25 lower right recto, unframed, printe...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Silhouetted Lion on the planes of Africa at Sunset
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. Striking image of lone Lion set against a dramatic colorful sunset of the animals domain. Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, ...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Silhouetted Lion on the planes of Africa at Sunset
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Striking image of lone Lion set against a dramatic colorful sunset of the animals domain. Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, other sizes available , printed l...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Noble Lion Silhouetted at Sunset, Animal Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available . P...
Category
1980s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Elephants in Mexico, Life Magazine
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Done on assignment for Life Magazine, It was photographed outside Tampico Mexico. Elephants were transported to Mexico from for rehab after training in Oregon. The photographer and h...
Category
1980s American Realist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Board
Tuxedo
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful blues and magentas frame and formal white tuxedo with a faceless head. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 3/15 Printed later, other size available, unframe...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, 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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mitchell Funk figurative photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Mitchell Funk figurative photography available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of figurative 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 purple, blue, orange and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Mitchell Funk in paper, archival pigment print, 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 Impressionist style. Not every interior allows for large Mitchell Funk figurative photography, so small editions measuring 20 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Anne K Smith, Michael Banks, and Zhou Peng. Mitchell Funk figurative photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $3,200 and tops out at $185,000, while the average work can sell for $5,500.