Gjon mili

I’m standing on a podium, with an enameled wand cocked between my fingers and sweat dampening the small of my back. Ranks of young musicians eye me skeptically. They know I don’t belong here, but they’re waiting for me to pretend I do. I raise [...]

Gjon Mili - Jascha Heifetz playing in mili’s darkened studio as light attached to his bow traces the bow movement, New York, 1952 @ life

In front of the Grand Hotel Thermal where cellist Pablo Casals is staying, group of men form a castello in his honor, a Catalan acrobatic feat in which men...

Gjon Mili, Gene Krupa playing Drum, 1941

Photography, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

How do you go about capturing music in a photograph? Photographer Stephen Orlando has an interesting answer: light painting. By attaching LED lights to

Grygar Milan 1969

From The New Yorker’s archive, pieces on dance and choreography, by Joan Acocella, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alma Guillermoprieto, Janet Flanner, Rivka Galchen, Calvin Tomkins, Angelica Gibbs, John Updike, Jonah Weiner, and John Lahr.

Martha Graham by Gjon Mili (1904-1984) … 1941 … Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) American, modern dancer/choreographer, her influence on dance has been compared with that of Picasso on modern visual arts, Stravinsky on music, Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture … (above) performing in Punch and Judy …

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Gjon Mili, Jascha Heifetz in Mili’s darkened Studio as Light attached to his Bow Traces the Bow Movement, New York, 1952

Gjon Mili (1904-1984) was born in Albania and came to the United States in 1923. Gjon was trained as an engineer and was a self-taught photographer. In the mid 1930’s Mili, working with Harold Eugene Edgerton from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), pioneered photoflash photography. Gjon used stroboscopic light to capture the motion of everything from dancers to jugglers in a single exposure. His photoflash techniques are still very much used today in light painting photography…

A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.

Since its inception over forty years ago, Howard Greenberg Gallery has built a vast and ever-changing collection of some of the most important photographs in the medium. The Gallery's collection acts as a living history of photography, offering genres and styles from Pictorialism to Modernism, in addition to contemporary photography and images conceived for industry, advertising, and fashion. Maintaining diverse and extensive holdings of photographic prints, the gallery includes such masters…

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Art Storefronts on Instagram: "💡 Picasso's Light Drawings In 1949, photographer Gjon Mili visited Picasso in the South of France, showing him photos of ice skaters with lights attached to their skates. Inspired by the technique, Picasso used a small electric light to draw in a darkened room while Mili captured the process using long exposures. What started as a quick 15-minute experiment turned into five sessions, resulting in 30 light drawings of centaurs, bulls, and more. These…