Man in the Mist. Lost in thought and cloaked in a veil of mist and smoke, a young black man stands atop a fountain's pillar and ponders the world. The adjacent light post's shape echoes the man's shape and expresses a graphic tension between the two. Smoke leaks from his mouth, adding to the thickness of the surrounding atmosphere. Repudiating conventional compositional practice, the man points left to the outside of the picture rather than into it. At the bottom of the picture, a group of older tourists moves to the right and counterbalances the standing man, forming a formal composition. br Mitchell Funk brings the compositional exactitude of a studio photographer to street photography. He is an abstractionist while being a documentarian. br The work is signed, dated, and numbered 2\\u002F15 lower right recto, with other sizes available, and it's unframed and printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper br 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