Mitchell Funk
Chrysler Building Points Towards the Heavens, 2022
Inkjet Archival Print
40 × 60 in | 101.6 × 152.4 cm
$ 8,000.00
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As it soars above smaller buildings, The Chrysler Building spire resolutely points to the heavens. The flat white sky emphasizes the spire's silhouette, allowing it to dominate the composition. To...
As it soars above smaller buildings, The Chrysler Building spire
resolutely points to the heavens. The flat white sky emphasizes the
spire's silhouette, allowing it to dominate the composition. To the
extreme left, a cross is perched atop a church. Clearly, the Chrysler
Building was conceived and executed as a secular building, but when
juxtaposed with a cross, one can not help but consider its divine
characteristics.
Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto,
other sizes available, unframed. printed latiner, Printed on Hahnemühle
Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of "Color Photography." In 1970, he participated in one of the first "Color Photography" shows at a major museum. The Brooklyn Museum exhibition "Images en Couleur". In 1971, He was included in the visionary book "Frontiers of Photography" by Time-Life. As well as "Color ! " American Photography Transformed. Amon Carter Museum, and he is in the Coca-Cola Archives. He has had more than 50 Photography Magazine Covers, and has had covers on Newsweek, Fortune, Life Magazine and New York Magazine, and has been in The Smithsonian American Art Magazine,
resolutely points to the heavens. The flat white sky emphasizes the
spire's silhouette, allowing it to dominate the composition. To the
extreme left, a cross is perched atop a church. Clearly, the Chrysler
Building was conceived and executed as a secular building, but when
juxtaposed with a cross, one can not help but consider its divine
characteristics.
Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto,
other sizes available, unframed. printed latiner, Printed on Hahnemühle
Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of "Color Photography." In 1970, he participated in one of the first "Color Photography" shows at a major museum. The Brooklyn Museum exhibition "Images en Couleur". In 1971, He was included in the visionary book "Frontiers of Photography" by Time-Life. As well as "Color ! " American Photography Transformed. Amon Carter Museum, and he is in the Coca-Cola Archives. He has had more than 50 Photography Magazine Covers, and has had covers on Newsweek, Fortune, Life Magazine and New York Magazine, and has been in The Smithsonian American Art Magazine,