Mitchell Funk
Chrysler Building Spire and McDonald's Graphic Red Sign, 2023
Inkjet Archival Print
40 × 60 × 1 in / 101.6 × 152.4 × 2.5 cm
$ 6,500.00
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For 57 years, Mitchell Funk has been photographing the art deco beauty of the Chrysler Building. In this work, Funk frames the iconic spire between two other rectilinear shapes. On...
For 57 years, Mitchell Funk has been photographing the art deco beauty
of the Chrysler Building. In this work, Funk frames the iconic spire
between two other rectilinear shapes. On the left, there is a typical
monochromatic glass skyscraper. On the right looms the left side of a
McDonald's sign. It's composed of a flat fire engine red color with a
yellow stripe which seems to echo the shape of the Chrysler spire. The
pictorial space of the sign appears as large as the glass skyscraper.
Funk accomplishes that with camera angle, depth of field, and overall
artistic savvy. Mitchell Funk’s investigation into the essential nature
of color photography’s potential is on full display in this radical
statement of color, shape, and perspective.
Signed and dated on the
lower right and numbered lower right, 3/15 Printed later, other sizes
available, unframed - 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,
of the Chrysler Building. In this work, Funk frames the iconic spire
between two other rectilinear shapes. On the left, there is a typical
monochromatic glass skyscraper. On the right looms the left side of a
McDonald's sign. It's composed of a flat fire engine red color with a
yellow stripe which seems to echo the shape of the Chrysler spire. The
pictorial space of the sign appears as large as the glass skyscraper.
Funk accomplishes that with camera angle, depth of field, and overall
artistic savvy. Mitchell Funk’s investigation into the essential nature
of color photography’s potential is on full display in this radical
statement of color, shape, and perspective.
Signed and dated on the
lower right and numbered lower right, 3/15 Printed later, other sizes
available, unframed - 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,