Gjon Mili

credited, titled, and dated by Time Inc. employee Geraldine Howard in ink and with the Time Inc. (TimePix) reproduction rights stamp, numbered in pencil, on the reverse, 1946 (Photographs & Recollections, p. 145, the full negative)

Time Inc. Picture Collection

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

This early stroboscopic print, on slightly warm-toned, double-weight paper with a slight surface sheen, is in generally excellent condition. The print has been trimmed to the image, and there is minor rubbing at the edges. When examined in raking light, the following are visible: a small (about 1/8-inch) impression to the right of Weston's leg at the right; faint silvering in the black area at the periphery; and some small, soft handling creases. The reverse is very lightly soiled.
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Pioneering stop-motion engineer and photographer Gjon Mili was introduced to Edward Weston during lunch with Nancy and Beaumont Newhall during the 1946 Weston retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art.  Mili subsequently photographed Weston in his 23rd Street studio, and wrote in Photographs & Recollections,

'He willingly posed for a portrait, but it was the repeated flashes that exhilarated him and turned his habitually grave aspect into childlike joy as he romped about happily, while the lights popped' (p. 144).