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Trained as an engineer, Gjon Mili arrived in the United States from Albania in 1923 and began working for the famous American photo magazine Life in 1937. That same year, he started a collaboration with the father of the electronic flash, Harold Edgerton, to pioneer strobe photography. Using a strobe, Mili dissected movement with rapid-sequence flashes, resulting in multiple images being recorded on a single film frame that traced the evolution of a motion or a gesture. His distinctive aesthetic style with dramatic contrasts and richly detailed impressions brought cutting-edge scientific discoveries to the general public.