Mitchell Funk
Ed's at Rockefeller Center, 1998
Inkjet Archival Print
60 × 40 in / 152.4 × 101.6 cm
$ 6,500.00
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...
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 inky jet-black sky populated with stars. This Sci-fi image juxtaposes a commonplace neon sign to a New York icon and ties it to the celestial. It begs the question ... Who's Ed? What's Ed delivering and to who? Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of Sci-fi Photography and "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. Signed dated and numbered 2\\u002F15 lower right recto, printed later, other sizes available, 29 x 43 - Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper