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Classic Old New York, Vintage Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
What New York City looked like before the modern world robbed it of its charm. In post-impressionist colors, Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a poetic Central Park moment, with a...
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Sun Beckons -Step into the Light -Three Black Woman Stroll into Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Follow the light and cast away rational assumptions. It will lead you to the sublime. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures three statuesque Black Women in formation as they hea...
Category

2010s Surrealist Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Muscular Black Man Pondering in the Fountain's Mist
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Man in the Mist. Lost in thought and cloaked in a veil of mist and smoke, a young black man stands atop a fountain's pilar and ponders the world. The adjacent light post's shape ech...
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Central Park Bow Bridge with Silhouetted Figures Post-Impressionist Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Post-Impressionist Golden Light illuminates six figures on Central Park's Bow Bridge. They are depicted in casual poses unburdened by everyday stresses. The low-angle backlighting s...
Category

1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Fashion Models Nude Legs Fifth Avenue Billboard with Pedestrians
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A monumental Fifth Avenue billboard depicting three nude models from the waist down and only wearing shoes soars above passing pedestrians. The scene is characterized by a deeply imp...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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 Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Board

Portrait of Green Eyed Sci-Fi Star Trek Girl in Golden Light in Times Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a green-eyed Sci-Fi Star Trek girl illuminated by intense golden light. In most portrait photography, the subject collaborates with the ph...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Vietnam War Protests Central Park - Nuclear War, Civil Rights, Agent Orange
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In 1971, Central Park was a hub for Vietnam War Protests. In this work, Mitchell Funk captures a packed protest scene with emphasis on the graphic nature of the banners and flags. Th...
Category

1970s Conceptual Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Sexy Male Nude on Endless Road in New Mexico in a Quest for Meaning
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A determined, lone, sexy nude male is about to sprint down an endless road in New Mexico and, in a quest for meaning, meet his destiny. The image exudes a sense of primal instincts...
Category

1970s Surrealist Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Post Impressionist New York City Fountain Scene - like Georges Seurat
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dancing waters emanate from a New York City fountain to fill the sky with thousands of circles of light. Bystanders mingle in the mist as Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures ...
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Black Liberation Army Protest in Central Park - Civil Rights - Black Panthers
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A bold Black Liberation Army banner is featured among drummers and hippies in a 1971 Central Park protest. We see a rudimentary Super 8 video camera recording it all in the lower le...
Category

1970s American Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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 Abstract 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 Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Prelude to 220, or 110 - A Shocking Performance Art
By Chris Burden
Located in Miami, FL
An artist who puts his life on the line for his art. Chris Burden was at the forefront of the conceptual art movement in the early 1970s. Prelude to 220, or 110 is one of his most important works where the artist puts his life on the line for his art. Burden voluntarily lays on his back. His neck and wists are have copper bands that bolt him to the floor. To his immediate left and right are two buckets of water with a 110-volt line inside. If the buckets were compromised in any way by a passerby or an unexpected event - Burden would have been electrocuted in a literal shocking performance. Art history is replete with artists who put themselves in harm's way to accomplish their art. Michelangelo risked a misstep to a certain death as he elevated himself over 60 feet to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Francisco Goya's "The Disasters of War" may have put him at odds with a governing orthodoxy. Picasso walked a very narrow line with during the Nazi occupation. Gutzon Borglum dangled himself off the face of Mount Rushmore and War Photographer Robert Capa, landed on Omaha Beach during D-Day. But it was Chris Burden whose art spotlighted...
Category

1970s Conceptual Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Street Photography in New York - People Minimized to Colorful Abstract Shapes
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New York City pedestrians form a graphic pattern integrating with a colorful green construction wall and an orange day-glow concrete traffic barrier. Three orange day-glow stripes e...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Black Woman with Flamboyant Hair at Cafe
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A black woman with outrageous long blond braids is captured in a cafe. She is seen through a window, and the nature of her hair integrates with the surrounding color structure. Si...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait 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 Abstract 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 Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Angel to the Rescue. Near Death Drug Overdose - Lower East Side
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A disheveled young man lies passed out on Ludlow Street in New York City's Lower East Side. As if he was invisible, herds of pedestrians shuffle by. An angel benevolently comes to hi...
Category

2010s American Realist 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 Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Cannons of Vicksburg - Civil War on My Mind Surrealism
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A silhouetted man looks out to infinity and ponders the buried memories on the hallowed grounds of Vicksburg. He is seen in silhouette in the bottom half of the composition. The top half shows two Civil War...
Category

1970s Surrealist Landscape 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 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 Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Urban Melancholy Blue. Motionless Young Man, Graffiti Wall in Soho
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An urban youth shrouds his head in a blue sweater as he coils up against a blue Soho wall marked with Graffiti. Reminiscent of Picasso's Blue Period, the photograph is characteriz...
Category

2010s Street Art Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Muscular Male and Leggy Female Figure on the Roof
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This is a self-portrait with a 1950s girly cut-out set against a dramatic tropical sky. It's is a straight shot. The camera is on a tripod while the photographer slides over to bec...
Category

1980s Surrealist Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Picture of the Unknown - Plein Air Painter's Surreal Dream
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
It's a picture of the unknown. We do not know who the artist is. We do not know what the subject is. We do not know where the location is. It is all left to conjecture, yet the image...
Category

2010s Surrealist Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Figures on New York Steps in Gold Chiaroscuro Caravaggio Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Inspired by the drama of chiaroscuro painting by Caravaggio, Mitchell Funk captures figures on the steps of Bryant Park in Manhattan. Unified by the late golden rays of the sun and t...
Category

1970s Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Frenzied Pedestrians at Crosswalk Times Square - Street Photography Literally
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk nabs the frenetic energy of Times Square, where the streets are as over-stuffed as the billboards. They are one and the same and powered by an ele...
Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Fetish Spanking, Folsom Street Fair - Gay Interest BDSM
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Folsom Street Fair featuring public spanking - Gay Interest This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and nu...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nude 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 Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Man in Colorful African Theme Clothes Illuminated by Shaft of Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Rays of golden light burn through New York's streets and illuminate a man dressed in a vivid African-themed shirt with matching shorts. He dominates the composition that emphasizes ...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Urban Art Street Photography of Bus and Billboard Red Jacket Figure
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A tourist bus adorned with punchy hi-key graphics passes in front of a soaring Times Square billboard of similar nature. Street Photographer Mithcell Funk captures the precise momen...
Category

2010s Street Art Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Intoxicated Skid Row Bowery Homeless, Gritty Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Enter the Wood Chipper. Before the Bowery was a trendy destination, it was America's most famous Skid Row. Vagrant flophouses, 10-dollar prostitutes, dive bars, and what used to be ...
Category

1960s Realist 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...
Category

1970s Impressionist Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

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...
Category

1990s Impressionist Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Floating Runner Glides Above Dumbo Cobblestone in Angelic Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
They say that Photography captures the truth. That couldn't be more true than in this photograph, "Runner in Angelic Light". It captures both the physical truth and also the spiritu...
Category

1970s Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Muscle Man and Female Admirer at the Beach - Staged Photography
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A ripped muscleman strikes the pose with an admiring female bystander who holds an oversized pair of prank sunglasses. In reality, the muscleman is a 5-inch cut-out, and the girl is ...
Category

1970s Conceptual Figurative 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 Figurative 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 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 Figurative 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 Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Surreal Kayak Party in Foggy Metaphysical San Francisco Bay with Muted Skyline
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The weather phenomenon that defines San Francisco, fog, separates a party of Kayakers from the iconic skyline. It puts them into an enigmatic limbo-like state. Photographer Mitchell ...
Category

2010s Surrealist Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Golden Light on Solitary Figure in Central Park - Angelic Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden rays rim light a single figure sitting on a Central Park Bench. He becomes more of a shape than a specific individual and, as such, blends i...
Category

1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Solitary Running Horse Silhouetted against Blue Mountain
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A solitary galloping horse is captured in silhouette against a blue mountainous landscape. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, numbered ...
Category

1970s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Fly to the Sky. Boy Holding Big Bird in the Bronx
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The big bird is a painting. I painted it. It's oil on canvas. I mounted it on plywood and silhouetted it with a jigsaw. I took the silhouetted bird with me on the subway. We each had our own seat on the trip from Brooklyn to the Bronx The station has changed. In a Google stock image photo, you can see the geniuses have destroyed the beautiful character of the station. The early 20th-century signage and lighting fixtures have been changed by soulless and cheap-looking replacements. Robert Funk is a pioneer of toy photography, doll photography...
Category

1970s American Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Double-take. Street Photography with Eerie Blue Eyed Billboard
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A photograph of a photograph can be as real as reality. Illusion and reality on the streets of New York are on display in this double-take street photograph by Mitchell Funk. The f...
Category

2010s American Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Jumping Poodle Dog in Golden Amber Morning Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street photographer Mitchell Funk captures a magic moment. The image features a graceful lunging black poodle in pursuit of something outside the image area. The poodle is center...
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Dog Walker in Magical Golden Light - Color Hunter Photographer
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The color-hunting eye of veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk transforms drab street scenes into sanctuaries of luminous bright colors. Manhattan's grey canyons receive only fl...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Church & Steeple - Dog and Cat Large Format Polaroid
By William Wegman
Located in Miami, FL
William Wegman's highly conceptual Dog - Cat interaction is depicted in this large-format Polaroid Polacolor print that features a double portrait - a Dog and a Cat - together but separate in their own defined space. Signed, titled, and dated to lower right ‘Church & Steeple William Wegman 93’. This work is unique. provenance: Wright Chicago, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Acquired from the previous in 1993 by the original owner Thence by descent Best viewed with a top gallery light...
Category

1990s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Polaroid

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 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 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...
Category

2010s Impressionist Abstract 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...
Category

1970s American Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Spiritual Hare Krishna Central Park, Consciousness is the Original Energy
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the early 1970s, Central Park was a center for celebrations and protests. In his image, the Hare Krishnas who are a mystical sect of Hinduism are capt...
Category

1970s Street Art Figurative 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 Portrait Photography

Materials

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 Portrait 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 Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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 Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Hip Beautiful Black Female Roller Skates in Central Park Soaked in Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A hip young black woman in Central Park pauses for a moment of reflection after her roller skate dance. Street photographer, Mithcell Funk, captures her in an off moment of introspe...
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Surreal City Scene with Man and his Shadows in Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Surreal City Scene with Man and his Shadows - Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15. Unframed. Other size available, Printed later - Printed on Hahnemühl...
Category

1990s Surrealist Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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