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Period: Late 20th Century
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. ...
Category
Color-Field Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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 ...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Surreal Landscape Sci-Fi Landscape - Modern Photography Magazine Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Aesthetically, this image is generations ahead of it's time. It looks so contemporary but was done in the early 1980's in the pre-digital ear. It was a Modern Photography Cover 198...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Silver Man and the Tank - Primary Colors, Staged Photography
By Robert Funk
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...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Top - Art Deco Skyscraper in Gold Mitchell Funk, Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
Architecture becomes an abstract design statement as seen thru the lens of Mithcell Funk
Striking graphic design with found elements is a signature style of Mitchell Funk. He brings ...
Category
Art Deco Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
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...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Impressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Art Deco Skyscraper
Located in Miami, FL
Architecture becomes an abstract design statement as seen thru the lens of Mithcell Funk
Striking graphic design with found elements is a signature style of Mitchell Funk. He brings...
Category
Art Deco Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
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...
Category
Street Art Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Art Deco Movie Theater Marquee - Color Field Painting Meet Photography, Abstract
Located in Miami, FL
A marquee for an Art Deco Movie theater in Denton, Texas is photographed with meticulous precision by street photographer Mitchell Funk. Funk's approach...
Category
Color-Field Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Modern Photography Cover, Surreal Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
Historically , newsstand magazines have used a standard set of practices when it came to choosing their cover image. Their goal was to use a image that people could instantly relate to. The idea being, if an image pops off the page it will attract more attention and then generate more newsstand sales. For editors, choosing a cover was first a marketing decision and then an aesthetic one. That is why most magazine covers and (that includes art magazines) pretty much looked the same. They used familiar images, mostly of celebrities, beauty people or news items of that would beckon and aggressively reach out to the prospect. In this Modern Photography Cover of August 1983, they chose a radical departure. Their cover image that was the opposite of the norm. Mitchell Funk’s Graphic Surreal Landscape...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sydney Opera House, Modern Photography Cover , Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Modern Photography Cover, February, 1987 Triple exposure of silhouetted men on a hill, against plexiglass colored shapes echoing the bold iconic architectural curves of the opera h...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
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...
Category
Color-Field Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Red Brick Building Facade Street Scene in New York City by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Late light skims off the brick facade of a historic red brick building in Manhattan. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk creates an image that is both a realistic document of an urban...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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
Category
American Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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 ...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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 ...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Camel Caravan
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto, 3/15 Unframed, printed later, other sizes available.
Mithcell Funk is a pioneer of Sci-Fi Photography a...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Stonehenge and Eclipse with Pink Sci-Fi Glow
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 - Signed, dated, numbered 3/15, lower right, unframed, other sizes available, printed later
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of Sci-fi and did a lot of wor...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
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...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$6,400 Sale Price
20% Off
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...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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 ...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Brooklyn Bridge in Blue and Gold, Color Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed , Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Impressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Stonehenge and Eclipse with Pink Sci-Fi Glow
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 - Signed, dated, numbered 3/15, lower right, unframed, other sizes available, printed later
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of Sci-fi and did a lot of wor...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Colored Geometric Walls, 42nd st. New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 - Colored Geometric Walls, 42nd st. New York City is what it looked like before they were razes for a new skyscraper. Color field painting meets Color...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Las Vegas, Del Webb
s Mint
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography" In 1970 he participated in one the first " Color Photography" shows at a major museum. Brooklyn Museum, show "Images en Couleur" . ...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Futurist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Times Square in the Rain
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 3 /15 printed later, unframed, other size available .
The genesis of color photography starts with color. Bright, bold...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Main Street, Denton Texas
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated, numbered lower l 4/15 left recto , other sizes available, unframed, printed later
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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. ...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract City
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 4/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Photo-Abstract impressio...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled (Artichokes)
By Ida Lansky
Located in Denton, TX
8 x 10 in.
Vintage gelatin silver prints by Ida Lansky.
Artist stamp on prints' verso.
Ida G. Lansky was born in 1910 in Toronto, Canada. She pursued many careers in her lifetime including Nursing, Art, and Library Science. In 1928 she moved to New York City and later attended New York University, The Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and Cornell University. In 1942 she received a B.S. in Public Health Nursing.
Ida Lansky moved to Hawaii in 1945 and married Irving Lansky. She then moved to Norman, Oklahoma and then to Denton, Texas where she studied art and was mother to two children, Ellen and Michele.
From 1954 - 1959 she was in the Visual Art studies program at Texas Women’s University in Denton with an emphasis on photography. She studied under Carlotta Corpron.
1959 marked a peak in her art career when she exhibited her photographs in a group exhibition curated by Henry Holmes Smith...
Category
Bauhaus Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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...
Category
Art Deco Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Color-Field Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Colorful Field of Flowers with Redhead Child - East Hampton Like Monet
Located in Miami, FL
Through Mitchell Funk's lens, a field of colorful flowers in bloom turns into a Monet-like Post-Impressionist painting. A lone redhead child punctuates the composition as she prance...
Category
Post-Impressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Colorful New York City Facade with Blue, Yellow and Red Squares like Mondrian
Located in Miami, FL
Mondrian came to New York City in the 1940s, and the city's real-world grid-like street design inspired him to create his famous Broadway Boogie-Woogie series, composed of primary co...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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 ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Futurist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Cut Out I, #8 from the Edition of 25, from the Cut Out Paper Series
Located in New York, NY
Alberto Rizzo, Cut Out I from Cut Out Paper series
Silver Gelatin print
1987
Edition of 25
Paper size is 20 x 16 inches
Image size is 16.25 x 12.25 inches
Alberto Rizzo was a multi...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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...
Category
Post-Impressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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. ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Color-Field Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Abandoned Homeless Man on the Steps of Bryant Park - Street Photography in Color
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
American Realist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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 19...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Pegasus Mythical Winged Divine Horse Vintage Sign. Mid Century Street Signs
Located in Miami, FL
Red and white gas station signs and parking signs form an abstract pattern in an early example of color photography from 50 years ago in 1972.
Signed ...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Silver Silos and Station Wagon, Abstract Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Abstract Landscape photography by Mitchell Funk with 1970's station wagon.
Signature: Signed, Dated, Numbers 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes available. unframed, printed late...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Red Sun. Green Skyline New York, 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
Nati...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Blue Landscape
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 dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/1...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Plate Invasion - SciFi in Primary Colors - Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
Two plates are placed in the foreground and shot with a 20mm lens again the Manhattan skyline that gives an unearthly quality with common objects. Primary colors of the yellow and r...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
San Francisco Club Sign Abstraction
Located in Miami, FL
This aged Tommy's Joynt Sandwiches Cocktails sign may not excite one's appetite for food but certaintly satisfies one's artistic needs. Signed, dated, n...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
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