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black and white photograph of two people walking up stairs with their hands in the air

View Nude Descending a Staircase (after Marcel Duchamp), 1950 By Mili Gjon; Gelatin silver print, 12½ x 10½ in., signed in pencil on reverse, matted; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

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a black and white photo of a woman jumping in the air while holding a string

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…

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