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Period: 1970s
Red Wave, Photograph, circa 1975 by Michael DeCamp
Located in Long Island City, NY
This photograph was created by American artist and avid scuba diver Michael DeCamp. DeCamp's abstract photos have an enigmatic quality, and the interactions between shapes and colors...
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American Modern 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

Chrysler Building with Brooklyn Bridge
Located in Miami, FL
Color photography in the mid-1970s had barely emerged as a recognized fine art form. The few works in color that museum curators considered were mostly nature pictures or snapshot-l...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building, Brooklyn Heights Promenade
Located in Miami, FL
This photograph was taken in 1970, yet it looks surprisingly contemporary. The giveaway is how underdeveloped the Manhattan skyline looks. Both towers of the World Trade Center are ...
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American Impressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Fremont Street Neon. Old Las Vegas, 1974
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...
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Impressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Futuristic Vision: Sci Fi Outer Space Cosmos Celestial Abstraction
Located in Miami, FL
Decades before Photoshop and digital photography enabled the user to manipulate a photograph easily - Mitchell Funk created some of the most original, mind-bending, and technically brilliant images in analog. This work, "Futuristic Vision: Sci-Fi Outer Space," is a composite of two inverted Transamerica Buildings on a 35mm piece of film. It was done in 1978, and that is six years after the completion of the futuristic Transamerica Pyramid Building...
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Futurist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Rosemary Ellis Windows X Silver Gelatin Photograph Print architectural machinery
Located in London, GB
Rosemary Ellis (1910-1988) Windows X Original proof photograph for Windows in the Outlooks and Insights series published by Bodley Head, by Rosemary & Charlotte Ellis. Silver Gelatin...
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Surrealist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Las Vegas- Fremont Street Neon Signs, The Mint, Old Las Vegas
Located in Miami, FL
The neon signs of Fremont Street's casinos are more than just documented by photographer Mitchell Funk. They are carefully composed as if it were a studio still life with each elemen...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Weehawken Palisade
Located in Miami, FL
A foreground stone wall structure of a repeating vertical shapes alternating with openings is mimicked by the similar but more majestic vertical shapes of the Mid-Town Manhattan skyl...
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Post-Impressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Twin Towers , World Trade Center Abstract
Located in Miami, FL
The image is signed dated lower right signed dated and numbered verso 2 /15, Unframed, Other sizes available, printed later
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

Manhattan Skyscraper Abstract Multiple Exposure, Kali, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This trailblazing in-camera multiple exposures of New York buildings with the moon was done in 1972. It's not just an image that pushes the boundaries of visual imagery but it is a t...
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Conceptual 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Chrysler Building: Abstract Expressionist Photography
Located in Miami, FL
A 1930s Art Deco icon is interpreted in the frenetic technique that recalls the Abstract Expressionist painters of the 1950s. As if he were painting with light, visionary photographe...
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974
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...
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Impressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. ' Edition : 4 / 20 Signed, dated number lower right Printed later Other sizes available, unframed Before one of America's most iconic streets was desecrated into a mall, Fremont street was a wonderland of classic casino signs...
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Impressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Las Vegas Neon Signs Fremont Street, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
An abstract view of the classic Las Vegas Neon signs on Fremont Street at sunset. Bold reds, pinks, and blues work with the dramatic Nevada sunset. Th...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Street People. Old Man On Park Bench New York City, Monochromatic
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...
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Realist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Twin Towers, World Trade Center Catches the Full Moon
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Street Photographer Mitchell Funk exploits an upward angle of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. At the convergence of the two towers, a full moon appears wedged...
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Futurist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974, Abstract Photography
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. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Before one of America's most iconic streets was desecrated into a mall, Fremont street was a wonderland of classic casino signs...
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Impressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Old Freemont Street Neon, Las Vegas
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 ...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

Color Photography Abstraction of Park Bench in Central Park - Brooklyn Museum
Located in Miami, FL
A simple park bench acts as inspiration for an early example of semi-abstraction in color photography. Pioneering Color Photographer Mitchell Funk waits for "magic hour" light to ill...
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American Impressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Surreal Brooklyn Bridge with Blue Sky Golden Windows and Red Kite
Located in Miami, FL
Why is this view of the Brooklyn Bridge, a blue sky, and golden windows no longer visible? The image is a creation from Mitchell Funk's mind. It comprises three photographs with colo...
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Surrealist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Figures on New York Steps in Gold Chiaroscuro Caravaggio Light
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...
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1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Neon Old Fremont Street, Las Vegas - Dramatic Sky
Located in Miami, FL
Old Las Vegas is captured with glowing neon signs set against a dramatic desert sunset.. Signed, dated numbered on the lower right, 2/15 , Printed later, another size available, unf...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

Blurry Reality vintage Manhattan photograph
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Fernando Natalici - Blurry Reality, 1992 - Shot in Midtown Manhattan, pre-uber period as people waited for a rainstorm, cars drove by, the usual, no taxis one pedestrian wearing a lo...
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Contemporary 1970s Abstract Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Dream Landscape - Woman Strolls in Fantasy Forest of Blue Green
Located in Miami, FL
Questions about the nature and boundaries of reality are contextualized in this dreamy image of a woman strolling in a fantasy forest that breathes high-pitched color. Pioneering pho...
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Surrealist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Multiple Exposure of Colorful Flowers St. Patrick s Cathedral
Located in Miami, FL
It's 1971, and most photographers were shooting in black and white. Fine Art Photography was not yet in the mainstream vocabulary of museums — almost no art galleries considered or ...
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Abstract Impressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Dreamy Romantic Sunset over Ottawa Canada - Red and Oranges
Located in Miami, FL
Two light sources reveal that this is not a straight shot. As a pioneer of multiple-exposure photography, "Romantic Sunset over Ottawa Canada" is typical of Mitchell Funk's experime...
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Post-Impressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Golden Light on 1970s Road - Street Photography: Literally
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photography: Literally. At a time when most color photographers were just pointing cameras and snapping images mostly during boring mid-day light, Mitchell Funk was innovatin...
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Impressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Primary Colors in Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Bright reds, yellows, blue and green stripes adorn a wall in lower Manhattan. Chairs of the same color scheme line the street and have an older woman with a scarf covering her face. ...
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Color-Field 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Psychedelic Portrait of a Young Hippie with Manipulated Color, Kali
Located in Miami, FL
As a progenitor of special effects photography and experimental photography in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Mitchell Funk employed a variety of non-digital techniques to achieve ...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Colorful Paint Cans in Red, Orange, Blue and Turquoise
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...
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Silver Man and the Tank - Primary Colors, Staged Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This is a straight photo without a photoshop strip in. The silverman is from a trophy and is being held in the left hand of the photographer while his Nikon is in his right hand. It's an on-location shot set against three colorful fuel tanks...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

New York City Multiple Exposure - Rich Magenta
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...
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

Children s Playground Central Park in Impressionist Blue and Magenta.
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...
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Impressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Shirtless Man with Hat Against Pink Wall Chelsea, Manhattan - Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
An unexpectedly bright magenta wall serves as a background for a hatted passerby. In 1970 very few people were shooting in color, and just a handful of photographers exploited the co...
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Street Art 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Life Magazine Cover July 1980, Mithcell Funk Lighthouse
Located in Miami, FL
alternative photo - done on assignment in Cape Hatteras Signed lower right, numbered, 3/15 dated
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American Modern 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

Staten Island Ferry in Magenta New York Harbor by Mitchell Funk, Color Field
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...
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Color-Field 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Surreal Blue Landscape - Early Sci-fi Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This image from the imagination of Mitchell Funk was the cover photograph for Popular Photography Magazine, May 1978, It is signed and numbered on lower right, as well as titled ...
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Surrealist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Flatiron Building Multiple Exposure
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated lnumbered ower right, recto. Edition 3 of 15. Unframed. Other size available, printed later This work is decades ahead of it's time. An in camera multiple exposure...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

Brooklyn Bridge Multiple Exposure in Magenta and Blue, City Abstract
Located in Miami, FL
In the early 1970s, color photography was not really considered to be art by any standard. Mitchell Funk is one of the early trailblazers of color photography as fine art. In this ...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Red Sun. Green Skyline, Nikon Advertising Campaign
Located in Miami, FL
Red Sun. Green Skyline, Nikon Advertising Campaign Inkjet Archival Print Signature: Signed dated ,numbered lower right recto. Printed Later, Unframed 2/15, other sizes available - Pr...
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Surrealist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

Signs and Shapes Primary Colors , Modern Photography Cover by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Modern Photography Cover , August 1978 ( Editors flipped the image. The correct way is yellow arrows on bottom Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15, Unf...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Street Art Houston Street, Soho - Early Street Art
Located in Miami, FL
Early Street Art in New York City documented in color in 1971. Street Art is not a recent phenomenon. The appreciation of it by the art world is. The horizontal white painted lines...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Wooden Row Boats: Green, Blue and Red, Central Park, New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Stacked wooden row boats in Central Park form a beautiful abstract pattern with fading paint. Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other ...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Photography

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Inkjet

Psychedelic Forrest
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk. He was Color when Color wasn't Cool. Conceptualized and executed in 1971, when color photography was not recognized as fine art, this group of abstract, negative colo...
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

Hard Edge Abstraction - Signs and Shapes, Modern Photography Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Modern Photography Cover , August 1978 Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15, Unframed. Printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Other size...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Wooden Row Boats: Green, Blue and Red, Central Park, New York City
Located in Miami, FL
You do not see boats like this anymore. Stacked old wooden row boats in Central Park form a beautiful abstract pattern with fading paint. Signed dat...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Photography

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Inkjet

Impressionist Magenta Trees Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
This is a groundbreaking early example of negative color manipulated with color filters. Executed on 35mm film emulsion. It's a poetic and lyrical evocation of a fairytale landscape...
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Impressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Inkjet

New York Skyscrapers with Green Sky and Divergent Perspective
Located in Miami, FL
In-camera Multiple Exposure of 3rd Avenue in Manhattan and car depot in Weehawken New Jersey. The viewer looks up at the buildings and down at the cars and yet they are seamlessly u...
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Futurist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Arrows
Located in Miami, FL
Arrows and Sun, Modern Photography Magazine Cover, August 1978, Created 1976 Signed and dated lower right, numbered and dated on verso, Printed Later, Unframed 4/15. Other size avail...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

White Building, Red Sun
Located in Miami, FL
Cover. Photomethods Magazine, March, 1982, Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframe
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

Red Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
Typically the verdant landscape is transformed into a Color Field photograph consisting of vibrant red and magenta horizontal bands that radiate and reverberate with optical force. ...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Three Oval Glows
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...
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Surrealist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Surreal Blue Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
Cover Popular Photography, May 1978, Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed
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Surrealist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

The Empire State Building Art Deco Skyscraper Silhouetted, New York in the 1970s
Located in Miami, FL
The Empire State Building is vividly portrayed as a stand-alone Art Deco skyscraper in an uncluttered New York City sky. Surrounding it is the emptiness of midtown Manhattan. It allo...
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Art Deco 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Cute Black Dog Against a Graphic Yellow Orange Wall in Mexico
Located in Miami, FL
An observing black dog is captured against a yellow and red Coca-Cola sign in Guaymas, Mexico. Shot in 1970, Mitchell Funk was innovating in color photography, which is what many col...
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Color-Field 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Adobe Mission Church in Taos New Mexico
Located in Miami, FL
San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church in Taos was photographed in 1973 by Mitchell Funk. The image is characterized by radical cropping and a simplification of elements and is set ...
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1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Noguchi Cube in Negative Color
Located in Miami, FL
Generations ahead of his time, Mithcell Funk rejects straightforward documentary photography and interprets the Noguchi Cube in a style as fresh and inventive as the Cube itself. It...
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Futurist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Golden Light Illuminates a Romantic Couple in Central Park - Amber and Orange
Located in Miami, FL
Golden sunlight filters through the autumn trees to illuminate two lovers on a Central Park bench. As a popular tourist location, Central Park is endlessly photographed. But Mitch...
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Post-Impressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Surreal Impressionist Landscape in Lavender
Located in Miami, FL
This is an in-camera manipulated photograph from 1970. It depicts soft light caressing trees as they are mirrored in the water. The image is filled with nuanced blue-magenta color. ...
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Post-Impressionist 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Red Wall Lower Manhattan Street Scene - Early Color Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This image is as much about the color of the red wall and the psychedelic colors of the female's shirt street as the three figures who populate the composition. Color is a co-subject...
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Color-Field 1970s Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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