Robert Funk
Ruth on the Roof - ( Staged Photography ), 1974
Inkjet Archival Print
29 × 43 in / 73.7 × 109.2 cm
$ 4,000.00
Shot on the roof of an apartment building in Brooklyn Heights. To the left is the crown of the Woolworth Building, and just over the right shoulder is the faint...
Shot on the roof of an apartment building in Brooklyn Heights. To the left is the crown of the Woolworth Building, and just over the right shoulder is the faint tip of the Empire State Building. Soo...where are all the other surrounding skyscrapers? They have not yet been built. 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 and hyper-realist painter Janet Fish and then in Graduate School for Art History with famed critic E.C. Goossen. He went on to work as a Photographer, New York Advertising Agency Art Director for Print and TV, afnd an Art Collector and Gallerist br Signed dated and numbered 2\\u002F15 lower right recto other sizes available. Printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper, Unframed,