Portrait of a smiling mother proudly displaying her newborn. Mother and Child is a very early of Staged Photography. In the early 1970s if there were ever a car that resembled at a birthing female, it would be the VW Bug. With headlights that look like breasts and the curvaceous and bulbous forms the car feels more close to a female human. With just a little imagination, one could vision the VW hood open and squirting out a little one. Nice job Car Mom ! br The work is signed, numbered 3\\u002F15, dated and titled lr. printed later Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper br 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 Art Director, and Art Collector.