Robert Funk
Aliens from Outer Space - Ruth on the Roof and Friend, Fine Art Print, 1974
Inkjet Archival Print
29 × 43 in | 73.7 × 109.2 cm
other sizes available
other sizes available
Copyright The Artist
$ 5,000.00
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Ruth on the Roof with Bald Friend. 1974. Like all my work, this is a straight shot, on location, with no Photoshop strip in. The location is the roof of...
Ruth on the Roof with Bald Friend. 1974. Like all my work, this is a straight shot, on location, with no Photoshop strip in.
The location is the roof of 135 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights. A slice of the St. George Hotel abuts the left side of the man's face. The man is a cutout from a Soviet Magazine from the early 1970s. Graphically, the shape of the man's head relates to the woman's somewhat circular sunglass lens, making "Ruth on the Roof with Bald Friend" a very original picture. 52 years after it was taken, it still looks radical and unearthly.
It's an early example of "Staged Photography". To my knowledge, no other photographer was published in a major newsstand photography magazine doing "Staged Photography" before me. I had my first portfolio published in Popular Photography in 1977. This work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 recto, unframed; printed later; other sizes available; printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper. Fine Art Prints by ArtMedia Studio, Miami
Shot on Kodachrome, 25. Robert Funk has worn many hats: Fine Art Photographer, New York Advertising Art Director for Print and TV. Internet Pioneer and Gallerist. He was widely published in the 1970s and 1980s.
The location is the roof of 135 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights. A slice of the St. George Hotel abuts the left side of the man's face. The man is a cutout from a Soviet Magazine from the early 1970s. Graphically, the shape of the man's head relates to the woman's somewhat circular sunglass lens, making "Ruth on the Roof with Bald Friend" a very original picture. 52 years after it was taken, it still looks radical and unearthly.
It's an early example of "Staged Photography". To my knowledge, no other photographer was published in a major newsstand photography magazine doing "Staged Photography" before me. I had my first portfolio published in Popular Photography in 1977. This work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 recto, unframed; printed later; other sizes available; printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper. Fine Art Prints by ArtMedia Studio, Miami
Shot on Kodachrome, 25. Robert Funk has worn many hats: Fine Art Photographer, New York Advertising Art Director for Print and TV. Internet Pioneer and Gallerist. He was widely published in the 1970s and 1980s.