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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
Flower Hat in Yellows, Blues and Pinks
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Woman as a flower. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso ,3/15 unframed. Other sizes available, Mitchell Funk is an abstractionist while being a documentarian Mitchell ...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Bryant Park, New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Negative Color with colored gels creates a wonderfully fantasy of a classic urban park. The work was done in 1971 during the Psychedelic period. Signed , dated lower right, Edition ...
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1970s Expressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Golden Gate Bridge at Sunrise , Misty Light in Blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Soft misty light pours into the scene evoking a poetic expression of a lyrical landscape. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size availabl...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

American Flag in Neon
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The patriotic colors of Old Glory are described in vibrating neon. Cars in the foreground reflect the striped pattern, while faces and figures punctuate the scene. Signed and dated ...
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2010s American Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Surfer at Golden Gate
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A lone surfer contemplates San Francisco bay as a splashing white wave of water partially obscures his view. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 4/15 Printed later, ...
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American Realist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Central Park Heroic Statue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 , other size available, unframed
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Academic Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

New York Skyline in Yellow and blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Late afternoon light baths the downtown skyline in a impressionist palette of soft light blues and pale yellows. The camera angle, lighting and long lens which compresses spaces tra...
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2010s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Tribeca in Gold, Street Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Edward Hopper's sense of late light combined with the isolation and desolation of New York is depicted in color photography by Mitchell Funk. Golden light paints 70's New York in a m...
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1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Boats in a Marina
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 , other size available, unframed
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Cherry blossoms Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An idyllic Post impressionism photograph charms your eyesballs with a charmingly rustic scene amazingly in the middle of New York City. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on ...
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Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Legs Haight Ashbury, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed
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Early 2000s American Realist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Three Oval Glows
By Mitchell Funk
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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1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

United Nations with Red Sun
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Double Exposure of Red sun into a the black shape of a silhouetted street signed evokes a surreal image of New York. Signed and dated on lower rig...
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1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Late Light Russian Hill, San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframe Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
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Early 2000s Photorealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Old West with Dramatic Dark Blue Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Piercing white light breaks through the clouds to illuminate an abandoned gas station in Arizona. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/1...
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1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Abstract City
By Mitchell Funk
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...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

East Hampton Beach - Glistening Light and Cumulus Clouds
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered , 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed. printed later Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Co...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Simplified Landscape Miami, 70s Car
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15, Unframed. Printed later, Other size available, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
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1970s American Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Child Cat
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 , other size available, unframed
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Times Square in the Rain
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition of 3/15, Unframed. Other size available
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Brooklyn Heights
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
"Wherever You Look, You See the Chrysler Building: Brooklyn Heights " is captured by Photographer Mitchell and is part of his exhibition, Mitchell Funk Photographs The Chrysler Build...
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Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Wherever you Look, You See the Chrysler Building: Lower East Side
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Wherever you look, you see the Chrysler Building, which is particularly true from the Lower East Side. Street Photograph Mitchell Funk isolates a red pre-war parking sign from a busy...
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Early 2000s American Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Chrysler Building Spire Glowing in Gold Light, Manhattan Skyline
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In a continuing project, "Mitchell Funk Photographs the Chrysler Building for 50 years," the present work is a stellar example of how Funk takes one of the most photographed world i...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Chrysler Building With Yellow Bus. "New New York Skyline"
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Chrysler Building has new neighbors, and together, they form the "New New York Skyline". Captured from a downtown location, Photographer Mitchell Funk's style of hyper-lighting w...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Empire State Building
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Bathed in the warm glow of late afternoon light, the Mid-Town Manhattan skyline glitters in a rich palette of gold and magenta. In the foreground, the Empire State Building rises li...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Early Morning Light Turns Chrysler Building Orange
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Early morning light turns the spire of the Chrysler Building and the surrounding buildings orange. Photographer Mitchell Funk was at the right place at the right time to capture nat...
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Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Twin Towers
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
On an assignment from the Port Authority of New York in 1975, Photographer Mitchell Funk was given access to the roof of Tower II of the World Trade Center. From that high vantage p...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Upper East Side
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Perched atop a York Avenue highrise, Photographer Mitchell Funk captures an early morning winter vista of Manhattan. To the right of a big puff of smoke and to the right of the Twin...
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1970s Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Greater East River
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In 1998, wherever you looked, you could see the Chrysler Building. From the vantage point of the Greater East River/ Flushing Bay, Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the Chrysler ...
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1990s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Chrysler Building Points Towards the Heavens
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
As it soars above smaller buildings, The Chrysler Building spire resolutely points to the heavens. The flat white sky emphasizes the spire's silhouette, allowing it to dominate the ...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Majestic Spire of the Chrysler Building Rises into a Sepia Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The close-up of the Art Deco spire of the Chrysler Building is depicted majestically rising into a mood sepia sky. Looking at this work is an uplifting experience. It not only pleas...
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1990s Art Deco Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Chrysler Building at Sunset - New York Skyline in Silhouette with Orange Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
"The Chrysler Building at Sunset" photograph showcases the mid-town skyline's clean and sharp silhouette. To the extreme left is the Empire State Building, and the Chrysler Building ...
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1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Quebec City with Vintage Car on Crisp Autumn Day
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Photographer Mitchell Funk selects a perfect day with intense direct lighting to create a photograph that is as much abstraction as it is representation. Funk lies on his stomach to ...
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1970s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Vintage New York Skyline - Impressionist Yellow and Green
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
From Weehawken, New Jersey, we see the vintage mid-town Manhattan skyline as it appeared in the winter of 1974. In the foreground, a perfectly positioned white cruise ship sprouts sm...
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1970s American Modern Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Golden Gate Bridge with Birds in Monochrome San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The semi-silhouetted arch of the majestic Golden Gate Bridge is caressed by the soft, warm tones of a setting sun. Above, a flock of birds circle as if to pay homage to the soaring e...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Rural Americana Window Joyful Flowers - Abstract Color Norman Rockwell America
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A joyful display of flowers adorns a country house's outdoor window. It's straight out of Norman Rockwell's America. The composition is formal, with rectilinear lines painted in a de...
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2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Epic Orange Sunset over Spiritual Sea with Solitary Boat
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A solitary boat is dwarfed by a colossal setting sun on a spiritual sea. The image suggests that a larger force is out there and that humans are just a part of the grand scheme. Th...
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1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

St Patrick s Cathedral in a Golden Celestial Glow in New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A celestial golden glow on St Patrick's Cathedral is sheathed in an equally heavenly sky. The image is not only beautiful but communicates a spirit of the divine as all elements lea...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Golden Light Reflections off a New York City Skyscraper with Moon
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dramatic golden light reflecting off a New York City skyscraper with the moon communicates more than just a document of a skyline. This image is about the aesthetic power and perhaps...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Beautiful Nature Colorful Duck Swims in a Pond of Blue and Yellow
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A red-billed duck swims in a pond of impressionist yellow and blue colors that please the viewer's optic nerve and soothe one's mood. The image is as abstract as it is representation...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Big Sun Over New York City Bridge - The Transience of Time.
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This dramatic image of an oversized sun with a silhouetted plane gracefully passing through conveys the transience of time. Two spires of the Triborough Bridge are centered in the co...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Gathering of Birds on Wires In Miami
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Strong light illuminates an upward view of an exaggerated cluster of gathering birds. The birds' warm golden color in chiaroscuro contrasts with the soft blue tropical Miami sky and...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Yellow Moon Over Manhattan in the 1970s
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A recurring motif in Mitchell Funk's work is the inclusion of an oversized moon. It signifies a celestial presence. This work, "Yellow Moon Over Manhattan," is an early example, but ...
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1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Magenta Sky at Dusk , Serene Sky in Blue and Magenta Running Man and Boats
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A lone figure is captured running against a Magenta Sky at Dusk. He is small in the frame, with the vastness of nature as a backdrop. This image was taken in 1972 and exemplifies Pho...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Man and Dog in New York City Park Early Morning Light Impressionism
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
From a high angle, we see early morning light skim across the surface of an outdoor basketball court, creating long, dramatic shadows and poetic patterns. In the center of the compos...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Cute Black Dog Against a Graphic Yellow Orange Wall in Mexico
By Mitchell Funk
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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1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Colorful Field of Flowers with Redhead Child - East Hampton Like Monet
By Mitchell Funk
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...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Colorful New York City Facade with Blue, Yellow and Red Squares like Mondrian
By Mitchell Funk
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...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

New York City Hazy Day, Central Park West Towers Cradle Orange Red Sun
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dense smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed New York City with a thick, warm grey haze, giving the sky a surreal quality. Sunset enhanced the hazy effect. Photographer Mitchell Fun...
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2010s Tonalist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Central Park Ice Skaters at Night Purple Sky in New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A blur of Central Park ice skaters at night fills the foreground of this dreamy image of one of New York City's most iconic spots. The purple sky and bluish ice add to the overall ...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Manhattan Rooftop Abstraction - Urban Landscape Color Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A Manhattan rooftop looks as beautiful as an abstract painting filled with lush colors punctuated by a single sitting figure in hyper-light. New York City rooftops are typically dar...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Deck Chair Casual Abstraction with Raking Light and Shadows
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Deck chairs randomly positioned on an Upper East Side balcony are captured by Photographer Mitchell Funk. Raking light produces abstract long shadows giving the overall arrangement of elements a casual abstract look. In the center of the composition is a yellow and green chair with colors...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Bridges of New York City at Sunset Vibrant Orange
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A unique vantage point, a vibrant sunset, and bleeding colors give this view of New York's Whitestone and Throgs neck Bridges a dreamy quality. This archival color photograph by ...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Aspen Colorado Golden Landscape Luminous Lines of Light and Bicycle
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden rays transform power lines into luminous lines of light that stretch across the Aspen landscape. A solitary biker punctuates the scene. Over his 55-year photography career, M...
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1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Old House and Truck in 1970 s Urban Scene
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
What America looked like in 1979. This three-storied house with peeling paint, dilapidated terraces, and a clothesline was shot in Hartford, Connecticut. Signed, dated and numb...
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1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Sci Fi Close Encounters with Orange New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Conceptual Photographer Mitchell Funk created a Sci-Fi image 2 years before the iconic Close Encounters of a Third Kind was released in 1977. Funk's work is really two images combine...
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1970s Conceptual Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

A New Skyline is Born - The Manhattan Queens Skyline
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Perched high on the roof of an East Side highrise, Mitchell Funk merges the boroughs. Funk creates a new New York City Skyline composed of buildings and smokestacks by selecting the...
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2010s Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Street Art: Literally - Painted Manhattan From Above Abstract Patterns
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street photographer Mitchell Funk captures abstract street patterns in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Absorbing the influence of both the Color Field and Non-Objective painters, Funk ...
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2010s Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Florence with Orange in the Sky - The Rebirth of the Renaissance
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A fresh and bold paintbrush characterizes a classic view of Florence. Mitchell Funk's application of vibrantly bold orange effects a rebirth of the birthplace of the Renaissance. Wra...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Surreal Gas Station on a Foggy Night with Green Lights. Close Encounters
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The same year, the iconic science fiction movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released, visionary still photographer Mitchell Funk shot this SciFi-like image. It's of an un...
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1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Mitchell Funk color photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Mitchell Funk color photography available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of color 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, red and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Mitchell Funk in paper, archival paper, archival 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 color photography, so small editions measuring 27 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Carol Inez Charney, Lucille Khornak, and Gerard Giliberti. Mitchell Funk color 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.