Mitchell Funk
Chrysler Building: The Smokestack and the Skyscraper, 1980
Inkjet Archival Print
60 × 40 in / 152.4 × 101.6 cm
$ 7,500.00
Before Long Island City blossomed into a landscape of high-rise residential development, it was a gritty industrial area. One of the iconic images of the LIC was four monumental smokestacks...
Before Long Island City blossomed into a landscape of high-rise
residential development, it was a gritty industrial area. One of the
iconic images of the LIC was four monumental smokestacks from an
abandoned factory. Photographer Mitchell Funk viewed the smokestacks as
less than utilitarian objects and envisioned them more as skyscrapers.
He created this hybrid image in 1980, where a smokestack and a
skyscraper coexist in the same pictorial space. He photographed them in
silhouette to reduce them to simple shapes, achieving a feat of
fantastic design. In the foreground, a time exposure of car lights leads
the eye into his deeply impressive new vision of Midtown Manhattan.
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,
residential development, it was a gritty industrial area. One of the
iconic images of the LIC was four monumental smokestacks from an
abandoned factory. Photographer Mitchell Funk viewed the smokestacks as
less than utilitarian objects and envisioned them more as skyscrapers.
He created this hybrid image in 1980, where a smokestack and a
skyscraper coexist in the same pictorial space. He photographed them in
silhouette to reduce them to simple shapes, achieving a feat of
fantastic design. In the foreground, a time exposure of car lights leads
the eye into his deeply impressive new vision of Midtown Manhattan.
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,