Mitchell Funk Color 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
Primary Colors in Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
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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1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Abstraction - Street Photography: Literally
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photography: Literally. From an elevated vantage point, Street Photographer Mitchell Funk shoots down on a busy midtown Manhattan street and composes the image so that it's as...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Flatiron Building in Golden Light with Williamsburg Tower, Classic Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Early New York City skyscrapers rich in history are celebrated in this magical image. Golden late afternoon illuminates the facade of New York City's first skyscraper: The Flatiron Building. Directly behind the Flatiron is the Beaux-Arts
Neoclassical Consolidated Edison Building at 4 Irving Place. In the far distance and in another borough is the iconic Williamsburg Tower...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Psychedelic Portrait of a Young Hippie with Manipulated Color, Kali
By Mitchell Funk
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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1970s Abstract Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mickey
s Bar. Chelsea, Tribeca, Old New York
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated lower and numbered 2/15 lower right recto, unframed, printed later, other sizes available. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Description: Quintessential image of ...
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1970s Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Inkjet
Timeless Cherry Blossoms in Central Park Pre-War Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Cherry Blossoms in Central Park with a lone figure in a blue shirt set against the iconic pre-war architecture of Central Park West.
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on v...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sailboat at Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100.
Signed Dated and numbered lower right 3/15, unframed printed later, other sizes available.
Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer". He was c...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Inkjet
Colorful Paint Cans in Red, Orange, Blue and Turquoise
By Mitchell Funk
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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1970s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Manhattanhenge 2021 with Mystical Object - Street Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Late afternoon light from Manhattanhenge skims across the asphalt of East 72nd Street. The circular shape of a manhole cover in the foreground echos the ...
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2010s Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Lone Sailboat on a placid turquoise sea
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The photographer preserves this fleeting and idyllic marine scene with a simple and graphic composition. This image is signed, dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto. Other size...
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Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Surreal Landscape Sci-Fi Landscape - Modern Photography Magazine Cover
By Mitchell Funk
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...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
The Bethesda Terrace And Fountain In Snow, Central Park, New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
People with colorful umbrellas in front of Bethesda Fountain in Central Park in snowstorm.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Big Moon over Magenta Sea - Pink Crashing Wave at New Jersey Shore
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Veteran photographer Mitchell Funk strikes a fine balance between abstraction and representation in this optically pleasing color photograph. The sky turns pink magenta as waves cras...
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1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Graffiti Street Art Photograph in Red and Green
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Graffiti-clad New York City Street scene with wall shot by veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk in his trademark colorful style. In Funk's oeuvre co...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Top , Art Deco Architecture New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
It's the epitome of Art Deco Architecture. The top of the Chrysler Building is lit by golden light in this photograph of a classic New York City scene. Photographer Mitchell Funk s...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Snowfall in Central Park with Dogs in Snow, Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The three-figure formation in the foreground is echoed in the three-building formation in the background.
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto. Edition 3 of 15, Unframed. Other...
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2010s Street Art Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street Art New York City in Pink and Green
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Art is today's dominant contemporary aesthetic. It abounds every day and in on potentially everything. Colorful chairs and tables are complemented by colorful wall murals in ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Pacific Heights, San Francisco by Mitchell Funk Street Photographer
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a "Street Photographer" - Literally. Painted stripes of lemon yellow lead the eye into an expanse of cerulean blue over San Francisco Bay. Signed and dated on lo...
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Early 2000s American Realist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Greenwich village Street Scene with Colorful Walls - Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s, color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the ...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park In Autumn With Billionaires Row Skyscrapers. Surreal City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Surreal City. It's Vermont in Manhattan? It's Vermont like autumn colors of oranges, amber, auburn, and crimsons of Central Park trees. They juxtaposed against the steely cold mono...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
San Francisco Vista
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. San Francisco Vista
Signed and dated and numbered on the lower right, , Edition 4 of 15, Unframed, other size available
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2010s Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Photographic Paper
Noble Lion at Sunset
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 Pr...
Category
1980s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Path in Central Park. Negative Color
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of more the 10 different styles of Color Photography.
This very early experimentation with negative color combined with colored filters yields a romantica...
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1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Photographic Paper
Central Park Winter Scene, Charles Burchfield-esque Landscape
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An iconic Central Park Winter Scene is transformed into a dreamy wonderland type landscape where reality became a point of departure. .
This archiv...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Vintage Car On Country Road In Vermont
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Brilliant illuminated curvy mountain road in Vermont.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/15, lower right recto. Oth...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Snow Traffic in New York City, Abstract Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated lower right and numbered verso 4 /15, Unframed, Other sizes available. Printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Shot in Manhattan
The uploaded video on 1s...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Model Sailboats In Central Park Pond, New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Illuminated with multiple light sources, Dog and Central Park with Model SailBoats is composed of soft blues blending into verdant greens. Monet-like Impressionist reflections in ...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Airplanes Yellow Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Graphic depiction of a regional airport on Long Island.
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Photographic Paper
Classic Art Deco Marlin Hotel Miami Beach, South Beach, Fine Art Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Puffy clouds over Marlin Hotel on Collins Avenue in South Beach, Miami Beach.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/1...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
New York City Multiple Exposure - Rich Magenta
By Mitchell Funk
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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1970s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Photographic Paper
Pastel Color Palette of Russian Hill, San Francisco with golden light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The magical moment where the golden light of late afternoon caresses the facades of the building.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dat...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Inkjet
Children
s Playground Central Park in Impressionist Blue and Magenta.
By Mitchell Funk
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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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lower Manhattan Skyline in Gold Light with Moon. New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New York City seen uniquely through the artful lens of Mitchell Funk. We all have seen images of the financial district in Lower Manhattan but this original in a very artful way.
T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black Boy Broken Glass Brooklyn Museum Color Photography Show by Henri Ghent
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An early example of a street photography portrait in color and multiple exposures with an image of broken glass . Exhibited: Images en Couleur, Brooklyn Museum, 1970. ( This was firs...
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1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Times Square in Pieces
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Billboard fragments of breasts, cropped heads of people, helter-skelter pedestrians, heroic bronze statues and tourist bus riders form a neo-cubist composition where disparate elemen...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Elevated View Of Las Vegas At Night With Moonlit Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Luxor Hotel&Casino and Las Vegas skyline at night.
Shipping should be around $100. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
The Conversation: Late Afternoon Impressionist Light in Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal: make color photography full of color in what was then a nascent ...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Shirtless Man with Hat Against Pink Wall Chelsea, Manhattan - Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
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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1970s Street Art Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wall Street, Negative Color, Abstract Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of negative color, abstract and color photography. This image was shot in 1970 and foreshadows major color photography movements more than 40 years in the...
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1960s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elderly Husband and Wife Group Street Portrait Against a Manhattan Red Wall
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 50 years ago, in 1972, it was q...
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1970s Post-War Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Rockefeller Center Skating Ring Prometheus Paul Manship gilded, cast bronze
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Paul Manship Prometheus Sculpture frames the famous Ring at Rockefeller Center in a perfect caught winter moment . Signed, Dated, number Lower le...
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2010s Art Deco Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Art Deco Movie Theater Marquee - Color Field Painting Meet Photography, Abstract
By Mitchell Funk
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...
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1980s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Kids with Colorful Clothes in Brooklyn Park - Color Photography Pioneer
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal is to make color photography full of color. In this image, notice how the colors of the kids...
Category
1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
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 Color Photography
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Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Old Las Vegas Dunes Hotel Neon
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk was a trailblazer in shooting neon signs with dramatic angles, acute compostion and powerful color. Although this is a nocturnal image it has vibrant life energy. ...
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1980s Expressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Purple San Francisco Victorian with Figure
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 3/15 , other size available, unframed
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Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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 Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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 Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
San Francisco Skyline Blue Sky and One Big Cloud, Landscape Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
San Francisco Skyline with Blue Sky is depicted in a artfully way.
One big puffy cloud hovers over the skyline of San Francisco and is counterbalanced by a big puffy area of fog. Th...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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 Color Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
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 ...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color 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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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 Color Photography
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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 Color Photography
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Photographic Paper
Sydney Opera House, Modern Photography Cover , Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
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...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
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 Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival 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...
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2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cracked Paint Abstraction Chinatown San Francisco Mural, Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A painted wall advertisement becomes an abstract work of art through the lens of Mitchell Funk. San Francisco is known for is a rich environment of...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment, Archival 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 Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, 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 Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
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