Mitchell Funk Portrait 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
South Beach in the 1970s. Old Man Walking Enters Building - Old Miami Beach
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This image of an elderly man entering a dilapidated Miami Beach apartment building shows how the famous resort looked before it became a hip inte...
Category
1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Homeless Souls in Bryant Park, Manhattan - Vintage New York Homeless
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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Times Square in the 1960s - Portrait with Dancing Sign - Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Even at the age of 19, street photographer Mitchell Funk forged a unique style of street color photography. It was based on formal and exacting compositions with an emphasis on stron...
Category
1960s American Realist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Horses in the Rain, East Hampton
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This image is signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are available. The work is unframed and printed later. Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dream Girl
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Done in 1970 during the psychedelic era, Mitchell Funk zooms a sleeping girl in Central Park. There a perfect balance between the zoom of colors emanating from her head and the as...
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1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Horses in the Rain, East Hampton
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This image is signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are available. The work is unframed and printed later. Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Archival Paper
Romantic Street Musician Playing the Saxophone in Golden Light and Orange
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden orange light caresses a street musician as he serenades the public. We can not actually hear his music but the way the picture has been crafted in beautiful tones of orange a...
Category
2010s Romantic Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Urban Sunbather, New York City - Smaller Print Size
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Elevated view of women sunbathing on basketball court in New York City with unexpected color relationships.
The actual color will vary from monitor to monitor.
The work is Signed dat...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fashion Red Hat in Paris
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Fashion Hat in Paris. Style above it all.
A graphic statement in red, black and green
Signed and dated on the lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 3 of 15, Printed later. Unf...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Trumpet Player: Soulful Rainbow of Color
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered lower right recto Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available.
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography". In 1970 he participat...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Fashion Model In Green, Street Photography of Abstract Wall Women Yellow Coat
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A fashionable woman in a solid yellow coat passes in front of an oversized Fashion Model On a Green Billboard on New York's Madison Avenue. In the foreground, an equally solid yello...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Portrait 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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fifth Avenue at Rush Hour with Extreme Intense Light, Neutral Palette
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Occupying the lower third of the picture plane, a herd of humans stride down Fifth Avenue. They form an overall pattern. The top of the picture is also comprised of a simple pat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Outrageous Flowers Colorful Hats at Easter Parade
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Two participants at Fifth Avenue's Easter Parade flaunt their artistic Millinery.
Veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk captured this dramatic and hyper-colorful double portrait...
Category
2010s Mitchell Funk Portrait 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 Portrait 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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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 Portrait Photography
Materials
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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elderly Husband and Wife Group Street Portrait Against a Manhattan Red Wall
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 50 years ago, in 1972, it was q...
Category
1970s Post-War Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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...
Category
1970s Expressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street People. Old Man On Park Bench New York City, Monochromatic
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 52 years ago, in 1971, it was q...
Category
1970s Realist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vagabond Vagrant - Life on the Fringe in the Bowery - The Streets of New York
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 1969, it was qu...
Category
1960s Modern Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Kids having Fun in front East Village Yellow Wall, 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 Color-Field Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Greenwich village Street Scene with Colorful Walls - Street Photography
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 ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elephant Close Up at Sunset with Wide Angle Lens, Life Magazine
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This elephant portrait was done on assignment for Life Magazine. It was for a story about a group of three elephants who stomped to death their trainer.
In an attempt to save the ele...
Category
1980s Modern Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Running Dog in First Light with Long Shadows
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
First light skims across the schoolyard pavement creating long and dramatic shadows. A golden dog is captured running through the scene and blends in creating a de Chirico like a su...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dog Park in Magenta - Dogs and People having Fun
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New Yorkers walk their dogs in an upper east side park. The scene is shot at dawn. First light skims across the ground and gives the whole picture a mesmerizing quality in pinks and...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jumping Dog in Golden Light - Early Morning Shadows
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dogs are a wonderful and joyful gift to us all. ln a continuing series, Mitchell Funk explores the dog's playful nature and captures it in dramatic early morning light. The magic...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Mysterious Beautiful Young Woman Peers though and Green Blinds, Fine Art Photo
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The effect of an abstract painting in green-blue is created when street photographer Mitchell Funk snaps a picture of a restaurant window. A vase with yellow and pink flowers frame...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black Bird on Colorful Subway Light - Fine Art Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This unexpected bird portrait was a grab shot as street photographer Mitchell Funk was entering the New York City subway. The real charm of the image is that it's more of an abstrac...
Category
2010s Modern Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Pigment
Flower Hat in Yellows, Blues and Pinks
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Woman as a flower.
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso ,3/15 unframed. Other sizes available,
Mitchell Funk is an abstractionist while being a documentarian
Mitchell ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Fashion Red Hat in Paris
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Fashion Hat in Paris. Style above it all.
A graphic statement in red, black and green
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 2 of 15, Printed later. Unframe...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fashion Red Hat in Paris
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Fashion Hat in Paris. Style above it all.
A graphic statement in red, black and green
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 2 of 15, Printed later. Unframe...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Trumpet Player by Mitchell Funk Soulful Rainbow of Color
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered lower right recto Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available.
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography". In 1970 he participat...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Laughing Policeman on Horse 42nd Street Times Square Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The photograph of Laughing policeman on Horse 42nd Street Times Square with golden light depicts an unexpected private moment in the most public of spaces. The policeman is clear...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Gay San Francisco , Folsom Street Fair. BDSM Leather LGBTQ FETISH
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precisely designed at the same time? Mitchell Funk says yes. He brings finely honed photography skills such as composition, intense lighting and design to highly charged subject matter. This Folsom Street Fair...
Category
2010s Modern Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Red Hat and Pink Hat with mandolin. East Village New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Colorful street life is capture with a color photograph, In 1970, very few photographers we actually shooting in color. This image celebrates color with its eye-popping red and magenta hats compliments by a pink door with graffiti. One of the give-a-ways to the date is the New York City street sign...
Category
1970s Realist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Psychedelic Hippie Guitar Player Groovy Washington Square Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. In-Camera Multiple Exposure with colored filters and emulsion match burn on 35mm slide
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto. Edition 4 of 15, ...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Dog Walker. Bulldog, Yorkshire Terrier, Labrador
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A captured moment of a dog walker with five dogs set against a post-impressionist background of warm oranges and cool blues .
Signed, Dated, number 3/15 Lower left recto, unframed...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Silhouette Man in Central Park with Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. In the early 1970's, there were no skyscrapers blocking later afternoon light from illuminating trees and rambles of Central Park.
The last golden ray...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait 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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Dreamy Bronze Statue in Central with onlookers
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 4/15, unframed, other sizes available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
It's an in-camera multiple exposures of two figures on a Central Park bench...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Funky Red Chicken and Girl with Dreamy Blue Dress
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A young girl in a dreamy blue dress takes her red chicken out for a walk.
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 4/15, unframed, other sizes available, printed later Printed on H...
Category
2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Psychedelic Hippie Guitar Player Groovy Washington Square Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. In-Camera Multiple Exposure with colored filters and emulsion match burn on 35mm slide
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto. Edition 4 of 15, ...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
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
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dog Walker. Bulldog, Yorkshire Terrier, Labrador
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A captured moment of a dog walker with five dogs set against a post-impressionist background of warm oranges and cool blues .
Signed, Dated, number 3/15 ...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Flower Hat in Yellows, Blues and Pinks
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Woman as a flower.
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso ,3/15 unframed. Other sizes available,
Mitchell Funk is an abstractionist while being a documentarian
Mitchell ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Chimp Behind Bars. Life Magazine
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Perfectly composed composition depicts caged adult chimpanzee staring out from his confinement. Editorial assignment on Chimpanzees and Animal issues. Life Magazine...
Category
1980s American Realist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mitchell Funk portrait photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Mitchell Funk portrait photography available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of portrait 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, green 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 contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Mitchell Funk portrait photography, so small editions measuring 20 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Greg Gorman, Lawrence Fried, and Ken Regan. Mitchell Funk portrait photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $3,500 and tops out at $185,000, while the average work can sell for $5,500.