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Gjon MiliWW-1949-M043320
1949·Gelatin silver print·13 5/16 × 10 1/4" (33.7 × 26.0 cm)

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Year
1949
Dimensions
13 5/16 × 10 1/4" (33.7 × 26.0 cm)
Artist
Gjon Mili

Artist

Gjon Mili
Gjon Mili

Gjon Mili was an American photographer and inventor known for pioneering high-speed stroboscopic photography in the 1930s and 1940s. His technique captured motion invisible to the human eye, documenting dancers, athletes, and musicians in unprecedented detail. Working primarily in black and white, Mili used electronic flash bursts synchronized with moving subjects to create layered, sequential images that revealed the mechanics of human movement. His work bridged documentary photography, scientific inquiry, and modernist formal experimentation, influencing both photojournalism and conceptual art practices in the postwar period.

Korçë, Albania

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Artist
Gjon Mili
Year
1949
Dimensions
13 5/16 × 10 1/4" (33.7 × 26.0 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1949-M043320

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moma
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