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Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Midtown Tunnel

Creator: Mitchell Funk
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art

Description
Photographer Mitchell Funk creates a dialogue between New York City's traffic and its architecture. In the present work, Funk fills the foreground with a frenetic pattern of car lights as they enter the Midtown Tunnel. The car lights feature a luminous vertical structure that draws your eye into the city, while the space between the lights forms black vertical structures that mimic silhouetted buildings. The image was shot on location using a Nikon and Kodachrome film. Funk shot the lights and then, on the spot, doubled exposed it onto a silhouetted image of the Midtown skyline. Both images seamlessly pair up. The result is a statement about two realms of a city. The street reflects the city's psyche. There is a graphic mirroring of shapes and colors that unifies both aspects of the picture. After 50 years, the image looks as contemporary as anything in fine art color photography. Besides making a point about city life, it's a highly dramatic masterpiece of design and color, as abstract as it is representational.
The image is part of a new epic exhibition, Mitchell Funk Photographs The Chrysler Building for 50 Years. Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Midtown Tunnel - Its elegant Art Deco crown and spirit stand proudly in between the Empire State Building and the Pan Am Building.

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 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
Origin:	United States, New York
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Inkjet Archival Print
Condition:	Good. Excellent
Creation Date:	1975
Styles / Movements:	Abstract Expressionism, Expressionism, Contemporary
Incollect Reference #:	814374

Dimensions

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

Message from Seller:

Robert Funk Fine Art in Miami offers an eclectic collection shaped by 45 years of experience, blending art with commercial perspectives. For inquiries or art advisory services, contact Robert Funk at decoypoet@yahoo.com or 305.857.0521.