“Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be
retained despite sudden violent movement.”
Gjon Mili (born 1904, Korça, Albania 1984) was
an Albanian-American photographer.
Born to Vasil Mili and Viktori Cekani, came to the United States in 1923.
Fifteen years later, he was a photographer for Life (a relationship that
continued until his death in 1984), and his assignments took him to the Riviera
(Picasso); to Prades, France (Pablo Casals in exile); to Israel (Adolf Eichmann
in captivity); to Florence, Athens, Dublin, Berlin, Venice, Rome, and Hollywood
to photograph celebrities and artists, sports events, and concerts, and
sculptures and architecture.
Trained as an engineer and self-taught in photography, Gjon Mili was the first
to use electronic flash and stroboscopic light to create photographs that had
more than scientific interest. Since the late 1930s, his pictures of dance,
athletics, and musical and theatrical performances have astonished and
delighted millions of viewers, revealing the beautiful intricacy and graceful
flow of movement too rapid or too complex for the eye to discern. His portraits
of artists, musicians, and other notables are less visually spectacular, but
equally masterful.
In 1939, Mili became a freelance photographer working for LIFE. In the course
of more than four decades, literally thousands of his pictures were published
by LIFE as well as other publications.
Gjon Mili is the one photographer who has formed our contemporary visual
understanding of movement, both in the direct example of his pictures and in
the influence his work has had on all action photographers who have come after
him.
His book Photographs and Recollections is a summary of his fifty years of work
in photography. -- Wikipedia
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| Gjon Mili. Moira Shearer. |
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| Ballerina Moira Shearer |
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| Ballerina Moira Shearer as Cinderella |
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| Moira Shearer |
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| Gene Kelly by Gjon Mili |
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| Tony & Sally DeMarco, ballroom dance team 1941 |
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| Alicia Alonso & Hugh Laing executing a grande jete en avant |
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| Ballet dancer Hugh Laing executing a leap w. legs crossed |
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| Ballet dancer Hugh Laing executing a leap w. legs split |
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| Alicia Alonso & Hugh Laing executing a port de bras |
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| Prima ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn |
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| Ballerina Margot Fonteyn in white costume |
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| Ballerina Margot Fonteyn in white tutu |
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| Ballerina Margot Fonteyn in white tutu dancing alone on stage 3 |
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| Ballerina Margot Fonteyn in white tutu dancing alone on stage 4 |
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| Ballerina Margot Fonteyn in white tutu dancing alone on stage 5 |
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| Ballerina Margot Fonteyn in white tutu dancing alone on stage 10 |
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| Dancer actor Gene Kelly in multiple-exposure dance sequence 1944 |
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| Dancer Anita John (front), of Anita John School of Dance, doing an interpretive dance on beach |
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| Kaye Popp & Stanley Catron demonstrating steps of The Lindy Hop. |
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| Figure skater Carol Lynne movements are charted by flashlights imbedded in each boot while stroboscopic light stops her in mid-leap |
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| Figure skater Carol Lynne does an arabesque camel spin illustrated by flashlights imbedded in each boot |
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| Spanish dancer Jose Greco performing |
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| Spanish flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya (R) performing w. her sister Antonia |
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| Untitled study of nude female dancer |
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| GjonMili 1947 |
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| George Balanchine w. dancer Suzanne Farrell |
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| corps de ballet in a performance of the NYCB production of Harlequinade |
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| American Ballet Theater production of The Nutcracker1947 |
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| Dancer Tanaquil LeClercq performing portion of Bouree Fantasque at Gjon Mili's studio. |
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| Multiple exposure of Antony Blum and Kay Mazzo. |
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| Allegra Kent & John Prinz in pas de deux. |
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| Multiple exposure of Allegra Kent & Anthony Blum in New York City Ballet production of Dances at a Gathering choreographed by Jerome Robbins. |
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George Balanchine & dancer Suzanne Farrell in costume for the ballet Don Quixote.
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