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Black Liberation Army Protest in Central Park - Civil Rights - Black Panthers
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Description
A bold Black Liberation Army banner is featured among drummers and hippies in a 1971 Central Park protest. We see a rudimentary Super 8 video camera recording it all in the lower left quadrant. Above, a giant blue moon hovers and is a compositional counterweight to the foreground figures.
This archival color photograph by street photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 3/15, lower right recto. Other sizes are available and the fine art photograph is unframed and printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper - The Video is showing light. Use the still image as a reference for color.
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography" In 1970 he participated in one the first " Color Photography" shows at a major museum. Brooklyn Museum, show "Images en Couleur" . 1971 Included he was included in the visionary book "Frontiers of Photography" Time Life. Color ! American Photography Transformed. Amon Carter Museum. He has had more than 50 Photography Magazine Covers and has had covers on Newsweek, Fortune, New York Magazine and Life Magazine among others -
More Information
Documentation: Signed Period: 1950-1979 Materials: Archival Ink,Archival Paper,Archival Pigment Condition: Good. Styles / Movements: Modernism Incollect Reference #: 736186 -
Dimensions
W. 29 in; H. 43 in; W. 73.66 cm; H. 109.22 cm;
Message from Seller:
You'll find an eclectic group of art works at Robert Funk Fine Art. 45 years of experience has shaped Director Robert Funk's multi-perspective approach to presenting art. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with great teachers such as first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg and hyper-realist painter Janet Fish. In Graduate School he worked with famed critic E.C. Goossen and went on to work as a Photographer, New York Advertising Art Director, and Art Collector.