A passport photo was inserted into the drivers seat of a mid-century toy
car and photographed from a worm's eye view on location. Robert Funk is
an pioneer of Staged Photography and was published in major newsstand
photography magazines as early as 1977.
" Signed, dated, numbered lower right , Printed on Hahnemuhle Fineart Baryta, Print by ArtMedia Studio , Miami
Robert
Funk is a pioneer of toy, doll, miniature, plastic thingies and staged
photography. He also photographs his own paintings. Most of his work is
done on location. He does not use photoshop to strip in images. He
doesn’t take photographs he creates photographs and has works dating
from 1973. He was widely published in the 1970's and early 1980's. As an
undergrad in painting, he studied with first-generation abstract
expressionist Robert Richenburg and hyper-realist painter Janet Fish and
then in Graduate School for Art History with famed critic E.C. Goossen.
He went on to work as a Photographer, New York Advertising Art Director
for Print and TV, Internet Pioneer and an Art Collector and Gallerist