Mitchell Funk 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
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...
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1970s Post-War Mitchell Funk Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Hard Times - Street People in Monochromatic Grey New York City
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 qu...
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1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk 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...
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1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street People Bowery - New York City
s "Skid Row - Bum Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
For decades the Bowery as the home of a huge vagrant population in New York City. This 1970 portrait captures a derelict with piercing blue eyes that echos his blue state of mind a...
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1970s Modern Mitchell Funk Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Staten Island Ferry in New York Harbor with Orange light on Statue of Liberty
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This is a classic image of the Staten Island Ferry in New York Harbor bathed in Golden light with the Statue of Liberty in semi-silhouette. The image was shot over 50 years ago but s...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
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Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dumbo - Gold Brooklyn Bridge Cobblestone Street
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
What Brooklyn was like 47 years ago. Mitchell Funk brings new solutions to color photography in his use of golden light to transform a scene from a dull document into a beautiful a...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
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Inkjet
San Francisco Victorians Painted Ladies San Francisco, Alamo Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
San Francisco Victorians Painted Ladies explode with color and charm in this graphic depiction. Direction light enhances the ornate details and heightens the color saturation whil...
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2010s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Photography
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Photographic Paper
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 Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sailboats , Marina District, San Francisco - Blue Water , Blue Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
White sailboats form a beautiful pattern in San Fransico Bay. The shapes of Sailboats in San Francisco dot the bay and are echoed by Cumulus clouds
Signed and dated on the lower r...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic 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...
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1960s American Realist Mitchell Funk Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco Bay with Sailboats
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
San Francisco's most iconic scene is capture in Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco Bay with Sailboats.
Popular Photography Giant Billboard in Times Square on 48th Street.
Popular Ph...
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2010s Post-Modern Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
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 Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Red Sun. Green Skyline, Nikon Advertising Campaign
By Mitchell Funk
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
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$6,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Urban Graffiti Art Wall Painting American Flag Onlooker, New York Street Art
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Urban Graffiti Art Wall Painting photograph on New York Street has an onlooker who looks like the art he's looking at. The image is a synthesis of art and viewer. The yellow abstract pattern on the viewer's shirt echos the yellow patterns on the buildings. The photograph celebrates the Graffiti Artists of New York. Late golden light enhances all-over abstract patterns and integrates the old architecture with the new street art...
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2010s Street Art Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Top, Art Deco Architecture Blue And Silver
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the is photograph "Chrysler Building Top Art Deco Architecture Blue And Silver", the photographer makes a statement about new and old architectural forms.
Signed dated and number...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Noble Lion at Sunset
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. ,Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, un...
Category
1980s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Brooklyn Heights Promenade in Golden Light - Magical Light - Edward Hopper
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This early work by street photographer Mithcell Funk, shows a lone woman gazing out from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. The whole image in ...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Monochromatic Golden Gate Bridge in Fog, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
It's a moody moment of monochromatic minimalism. Iconic San Francisco is depicted with utter simplicity. The Golden Gate bridge is stripped of color and form and is reduced to a f...
Category
1990s Minimalist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Urban Street Scene, 9 West 57th Street in New York City, Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Famous 9 West 57th Street red sculpture anchors a New York City street photograph that is part representation and part abstract. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Nude man on Endless Surreal Road
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shot on location Near Taos, New Mexico, 4 of an edition of 15, Signed, dated and number lower right recto, Other sizes available unframed, printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle ...
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1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
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Photographic Paper
Chrysler Building Crown United Nations, 42nd Street Architectural Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A tightly cropped view of Midtown Manhattan from across the East River in Queens yields a view of the city that only an artist can provide. This perfect arrangement of buildings can ...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Hell
s Kitchen , New York City, Street Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk shoots an upward view of an old walkup in Hell's Kitchen with golden glittering light against a hot sky. The warm colors vaguely allude to the distr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Silhouetted Lion on the planes of Africa at Sunset, Animal Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A striking image of lone Lion set against a dramatic colorful sunset of the animal's domain. Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, other sizes available, printed...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Ed
s at Rockefeller Center, Sci-Fi Surreal
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An unexpected marquee at the base of upscale 30 Rockefeller Center beams neon into the night. The 1930's art deco monolith is lit up like a silver spaceship as it thrusts into an ink...
Category
1990s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Red and Yellow Boats in East Hampton
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Inverted sailboats at Louse Point beach become bands of horizontal color in the beautiful study of summer.
Dr. Toby Israel discusses scenes of nature that you can project yourself ...
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Early 2000s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Photography
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Photographic Paper
Peacock Displaying Blue and Green Plumage
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The male peacock is a living work of art. Mitchell Funk has captured a moment of full display with iridescent coloration. Arguably, the male peacock ...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
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Inkjet
Running Horse at Sunset - Dave Grusin Album Cover
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. Dave Grusin – One Of A Kind Album Cover, 1977
Signed and dated and numbers 2/15 lower right recto, unframed, printed later, other sizes available
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Category
1970s American Modern Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Inkjet
$4,200 Sale Price
25% Off
Red and Purple Tulips Flowers abstraction in Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, printed later, other sizes available Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer"...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Manhattan Street Scene with Neon.
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
At dusk in Manhattan, a restaurant facade turns red and yellow from the exterior neon light. Veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk captures a moment when the snowy skies open ...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dale Chihuly, Life Magazine,
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Inkjet Archival Print. The Shot was done on a Life Magazine assignment on "Glass Artists" 1981. The three essential elements are presented in a bold fr...
Category
1980s Modern Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jazz Musicians: Night Blue City Lights
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Since the late 1960's Mitchell Funk has pioneered powerful bold and graphic images. His work is about the color and the shape
Signature: Signed Dated and numbered lower right 3/15, ...
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1980s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
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Photographic Paper
42nd St. Diamond Stud
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Adult movie marquees of old 42nd street in 1970. Double header, ABC's of Marriage and Diamond Stud
Signature: Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 2 of 15. Unf...
Category
1960s Abstract Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Inkjet
View of Russian Hill, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 3 of 15, Unframed Other sizes available , printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a pione...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk 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 Lower left recto, unframed...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
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Photographic Paper
Manhattanhenge Phenomenon, Mystical Light Setting Sun, Manhattan Solstice
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk has been chronicling lighting effects in New York for over 50 years. This recent photography captures the magical moment of golden light pouring into 42nd street while...
Category
2010s Expressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Young girl in an Couture Pink Dress, Fashion Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The interplay of light and shadow, greys and magenta transform a portrait of a flamboyantly dressed young girl into an optically engaging abstraction composed of alternating patterns...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Green Dog Yellow Dog, Animal Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Green Dog is photographed so that it is representational and abstract at the same time. The photograph is signed dated, numbered, 3/15 lower right, another...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Noble Lion Silhouetted at Sunset, Animal Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available . P...
Category
1980s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Miami Causeway in Blue, Street Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The underside of a blue bridge in Miami is transformed into a statement of about urban color. It's a hauntingly beautiful night image of Miami in blue and is punctuated with a red st...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Urban Art Bus Driver and Graffiti, Street Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street art comes to the intersection of street photography.
Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed, printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle Fi...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Empire State building Multiple Exposure Zoom
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Six in-camera exposures with yellow, green and red filters on a single frame of Kodacrome while moving the position of the camera and zooming yields a striking semi-abstract color i...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Inkjet
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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Miami Demolition
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New buildings rise as old ones fall, and a new Miami is created. Shot on Brickell Avenue. The Dupont Plaza Hotel in a stage os dismantling is seen in the left corner
Signed, dated ...
Category
1990s American Modern Mitchell Funk Photography
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Photographic Paper
Twin Towers, World Trade Center in Gold
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The World Trade Centers in its most captured in it's most simplified form. The buildings are reduced to just two columns of glowing gold.
Mitchell Funk has been famous for his interp...
Category
1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Museum Mile, Umbrella Abstraction
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 5/15, Unframed, other sizes available
Category
2010s Mitchell Funk Photography
Toy Rocking Horse, Naive Fun Pink Orange Photograph, Kids Room, Children
s room
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk photographs a child's Rocking Horse Ride in the snow. The inherent beauty of this moving sculpture for kids is enhanced as flakes of w...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Yellow Girl in Blue Bars
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk brings the compositional precision of studio photography to street photography.
Yellow Girl in Blue Bars is a grab shot. The result is a vibrant interplay of primary colors. Blue bars and blue jeans merge with yellow hair and yellow shoes...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Basketball Court New York City Park after Rain, Street Photography Beautiful
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, other sizes available., printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pionee...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
One Two Three - The Subway Riders
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
They are three distinctly different people. They are living in their own little personal world but yet share the same space. New Yorkers lost in thought and though apart they descen...
Category
2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Red Brick Building Facade Street Scene in New York City by Mitchell Funk
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
1990s Abstract Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Rainbow of Color Refection in Car Window - (Abstract Photography)
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Veteran Street Photographer Mitchell Funk encountered a newly painted wall in Queens, New York. Next to the wall was a newly washed red car. This was red meat subject matter for...
Category
2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Parking Rates
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed, Dated, Numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes available. unframed
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Flock of Birds over New York City Rooftops ( Abstract Photography )
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A flock of birds hovers above snow-covered Manhattan rooftops. The image is as much about an overall composition in abstract art as it is a document of group avian behavior. Signe...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Old Tug under Brooklyn Bridge New York Skyline Magenta
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A captured moment of Old Tug Boat as it passed under the Brooklyn Bridge and set against the 1970's lower Manhattan skyline with Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
It was shot ...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
San Francisco Cable Car, California Street at Sunset with Golden Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Magical light illuminates an icon of a magical city.
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 3 of 15, Unframed Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue Central Park South with Kelly Green Roof
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Plaza Hotel in New York City looks differently in this detailed view. Photographer Mitchell Funk has honed in on a less studied part of the historic French Renaissance-inspired ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Las Vegas Shopping Center Bonanza by Mitchell Funk Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mithcell Funk embraces his long-held graphic aesthetic highly keyed bold colors and strong design, while late afternoon light skims across the surface of an empt...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
South Beach, Miami Beach
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
South Beach, Miami Beach is captured at the precise moment where the color in the sky is echoed by the color in the streetscape Signature: Signed , dated l...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Yellow Nude with Eye
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Extreme close up of a eye combined with a full figure nude in a tight and graphic composition. It's an early in-camera multiple exposure using Ektachrome infra red film during the pr...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Camel Caravan
By Mitchell Funk
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
1980s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Photography
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Photographic Paper
Mitchell Funk photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Mitchell Funk photography available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of 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 blue, purple, orange and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Mitchell Funk in paper, archival paper, 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 abstract style. Not every interior allows for large Mitchell Funk photography, so small editions measuring 20 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Bill Jacobson, Carol Inez Charney, and Seb Janiak. Mitchell Funk photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $3,000 and tops out at $185,000, while the average work can sell for $5,500.