Photos of Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and other jazz legends playing at photographer Gjon Mili's studio in the 1940s.

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Equipped with a strobe light and the first electronic flash device, Harold Edgerton has captured motion like no one has seen before.

Gjon Mili, Gene Krupa playing Drum, 1941

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.

These stunning images, which show a dimly-lit Picasso as he uses a strobe to sketch shapes and figures, are the results of five sessions he held with lighting innovator Gjon Mili in 1949.

Available for sale from Contessa Gallery, Gjon Mili, Double Exposure of Models Wearing Hat with Heavy Face Veil (1946), Vintage Silver Gelatin Print, 11 3/…