Mitchell Funk
Chrysler Building Spire from Grand Central Station, 2019
Inkjet Archival Print
43 × 29 in | 109.2 × 73.7 cm
$ 6,500.00
The Chrysler Building is one of the most photographed buildings in the world, with millions of images of it taken from various perspectives. Yet, it has never been captured quite...
The Chrysler Building is one of the most photographed buildings in the
world, with millions of images of it taken from various perspectives.
Yet, it has never been captured quite like this. Mitchell Funk is
renowned for reimagining popular postcard subjects powerfully and
originally. The present image shows the spire of the Chrysler Building
pointing to an illuminating light bulb on the marquee of the Grand
Central Station. Funk employs a high depth of field, allowing a near-far
illusion where a small object, such as one you can hold in your hand,
is on par with a skyscraper of monumental proportions. His mastery of
light, composition, and the selection of a deep cobalt blue sky brings
life and intensity to a beloved but familiar subject.
The image is part of a new epic exhibition, Mitchell Funk Photographs The Chrysler Building for 50 Years.
The
Chrysler Building is one of the most photographed buildings in the
world. Yet Mitchell Funk's photographs of it are anything but a tourist
snapshot. For 50 years, Funk has been celebrating and rediscovering it
visually in a way that exemplifies the innovative spirit of its
creators.
The work is signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right
recto, with other sizes available, and it's unframed and printed later.
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,
world, with millions of images of it taken from various perspectives.
Yet, it has never been captured quite like this. Mitchell Funk is
renowned for reimagining popular postcard subjects powerfully and
originally. The present image shows the spire of the Chrysler Building
pointing to an illuminating light bulb on the marquee of the Grand
Central Station. Funk employs a high depth of field, allowing a near-far
illusion where a small object, such as one you can hold in your hand,
is on par with a skyscraper of monumental proportions. His mastery of
light, composition, and the selection of a deep cobalt blue sky brings
life and intensity to a beloved but familiar subject.
The image is part of a new epic exhibition, Mitchell Funk Photographs The Chrysler Building for 50 Years.
The
Chrysler Building is one of the most photographed buildings in the
world. Yet Mitchell Funk's photographs of it are anything but a tourist
snapshot. For 50 years, Funk has been celebrating and rediscovering it
visually in a way that exemplifies the innovative spirit of its
creators.
The work is signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right
recto, with other sizes available, and it's unframed and printed later.
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,