Mitchell Funk

Retro Urban Street Photograph - A Conversation in Blues and Reds

1980

The ethereal neon sign of a Miami Beach classic glows at night. Customers of Wolfie's Restaurant are seen through a window, while a backlit bus stop lightbox illuminates a single ma...

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...

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...

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...

Signature: Signed , dated lower right, Edition 2 /15 Printed later, unframed, other size available Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper

A two-inch plastic toy figure of a suited man is placed on top of an extended firetruck ladder. The toy truck and man are placed on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights building and positioned directly in front of the lower Manhattan skyline. At the time, it was the very center of of world commerce. The two-inch toy man raises above the tallest and most important buildings , including the recently finished World Trade Center Twin Towers. Clearly, this man is above it all and this photo is more than child's play. The work is signed, numbered 2/15, dated and titled lr. printed later, unframed, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Robert Funk is a pioneer of toy, doll, miniature, plastic thingies and staged photography. He also photographs his own paintings. Most of his work is done on location. He does not use photoshop to strip in images. He doesn’t take photographs he creates photographs and has works dating from 1973. He was widely published in the 1970's and early 1980's. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg...

Q’ero Ausangate mountain range, Andes Peru 2018 Situated on the central west coast of South America, this large country encompasses a great variety of biotopes and climates, in mo...

Q’ero Ausangate mountain range, Andes Peru 2018 Situated on the central west coast of South America, this large country encompasses a great variety of biotopes and climates, in mo...

XL 3 Hecton Quispe Ordoñez, Q’ero Qochamoqo, Hatun Q’eros, Andes Peru 2018 Situated on the central west coast of South America, this large country encompasses a great variety of b...

XXXVIII 4, Dolgans, Anabar district, Yakutia, Siberia 2018 The Dolgan people live at what feels like the end of the world, on icy white plains that stretch out as far as the eye can...

XL 15 Q’ero Qochamoqo, Hatun Q’eros, Andes Peru 2018 Situated on the central west coast of South America, this large country encompasses a great variety of biotopes and climates, ...

XLI 17 Bardi Cape Leveque, Dampier Peninsula, The Kimberley Australia 2018 A part of the Bardi (or Baada) community lives mainly north of the city of Broome on the uppermost point...