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Quebec City with Vintage Car on Crisp Autumn Day 1977

Creator: Mitchell Funk
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art

Description
Photographer Mitchell Funk selects a perfect day with intense direct lighting to create a photograph that is as much abstraction as it is representation. Funk lies on his stomach to achieve a deliberately acute low angle, looking up at a Mercury grill from a "worm's eye view". He composes the subject as an extreme closeup to dominate the picture plane's center part. Behind the car are three colorful historic houses. They become graphically integrated with the car. A line of red-rimmed windows echo the shape of the car's headlights and grill. In the background, a rising granite hill is covered with intense autumn colors of bright orange, yellow, and ochre. The sky turns into a solid, flat plane of deep cobalt blue and frames the top of the composition. The image was taken in 1977 and for it's time was radical for its use of hype-lighting and acute design in color photography. It still holds up after almost 50 years as an unexpected and intriguing image. A mint clean Quebec, "le belle province 77 " licence plate servers as a time stamp.
This archival color photograph by fine art 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. Condition is Mint.

Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precisely designed at the same time? Mitchell Funk says yes. He brings finely honed photography skills such as composition, intense lighting and design to found subject matter. Mitchell Funk brings the compositional precision of studio photography to street photography. Unlike most street photographers, Funk is an abstractionist while being a documentarian. 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 Editions & Sizes: 60 x 40 Price: $7,500

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment.
Condition:	Good. Excellent.
Creation Date:	1977
Styles / Movements:	Color
Incollect Reference #:	765656

Dimensions

W.	43 in;	H.	29 in;
W.	109.22 cm;	H.	73.66 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.