Gjon Mili
Typewriter

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Artist Gjon Mili (American, born Albania, 1904–1984)American, born Albania, 1904–1984

CultureAmerican

Titles

Typewriter

Date1940s

PlaceUnited States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 3/8 × 13 3/8 in. (26.3 × 34 cm)
Sheet: 10 3/8 × 13 3/8 in. (26.3 × 34 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Mundy Companies

Object number95.8

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionTrained as an engineer, Gjon Mili arrived in America from Albania in 1923 and began working for Life magazine in 1937. That same year, he started to collaborate with Harold Edgerton, the father of the electronic flash, to pioneer strobe photography. Mili dissected movement with the rapid-sequence firing of flash, which resulted in multiple images being recorded on a single film frame, tracing the evolution of a motion or a gesture. He developed a distinctive aesthetic style with dramatic contrasts and richly detailed impressions that brought cutting-edge scientific discoveries to the general public.
Provenance[Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1995.
Exhibition History"From the Printed Page: Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 23-June 5, 2006.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscription: Verso in blue ink, right center, "Typwriter", left center, "CR:", in pencil, bottom, "UL PF13328-L".

The photograph is signed with the artist's stamp in pink ink, verso: "Gjion Mili Photographs 6 East 23rd Street New York City Alonquin 4-7222"

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