Mitchell Funk
Chrysler Building with Brooklyn Bridge, 1976
Inkjet Archival Print
60 × 40 in / 152.4 × 101.6 cm
$ 8,000.00
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Color photography in the mid-1970s had barely emerged as a recognized fine art form. The few works in color that museum curators considered were mostly nature pictures or snapshot-like images...
Color photography in the mid-1970s had barely emerged as a recognized fine art form.
The
few works in color that museum curators considered were mostly nature
pictures or snapshot-like images done in large format. Mitchell Funk, on
the other hand, was going in another direction. He was concerned with
the concept of elevating color in color photography. His
experimentations were deep and varied. The present work, "Chrysler
Building with Brooklyn Bridge," is characterized by strong graphics,
flat, punchy color, and unexpected composition, brought to life by a
multiple exposure that combines two of New York's most iconic
structures. For its time, it was an original visual. Today, it still
holds up as a pioneering, almost poster-like statement with high-key,
bright color.
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,
The
few works in color that museum curators considered were mostly nature
pictures or snapshot-like images done in large format. Mitchell Funk, on
the other hand, was going in another direction. He was concerned with
the concept of elevating color in color photography. His
experimentations were deep and varied. The present work, "Chrysler
Building with Brooklyn Bridge," is characterized by strong graphics,
flat, punchy color, and unexpected composition, brought to life by a
multiple exposure that combines two of New York's most iconic
structures. For its time, it was an original visual. Today, it still
holds up as a pioneering, almost poster-like statement with high-key,
bright color.
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,