Mitchell Funk
Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Gramercy park, 1995
Inkjet Archival Print
60 × 40 in / 152.4 × 101.6 cm
$ 8,000.00
Wherever you look, you see The Chrysler Building, which is particularly true from Gramercy Park looking uptown. In this tightly cropped view, Photographer Mitchell Funk composes the bronze statue of...
Wherever you look, you see The Chrysler Building, which is particularly true from Gramercy Park looking uptown. In this tightly cropped view, Photographer Mitchell Funk composes the bronze statue of famed Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth to the right of the soaring Art Deco icon. Even though the two subjects are 20 blocks apart, their vertical presence have a visual dialog with each other. br This archival color photograph by Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2\\u002F15, lower right recto. Other sizes are available and the fine art photograph is unframed and printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper br Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precisely designed at the same time? Mitchell Funk says yes. He brings finely honed photography skills such as composition, intense lighting, and design to found subject matter. Mitchell Funk brings the compositional precision of studio photography to street photography. Unlike most street photographers, Funk is an abstractionist while being a documentarian. 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" . 1971 Included he was included in the visionary book "Frontiers of Photography" Time Life. Color ! American Photography Transformed. Amon Carter Museum. He has had more than 50 Photography Magazine Covers and has had covers on Newsweek, Fortune, New York Magazine and Life Magazine among others