Gjon Mili
Plates contributed
The 5 plates attributed to Gjon Mili in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0171 | USA | Work | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0213 | USA | Relationships and community | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0215 | USA | Relationships and community | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0217 | USA | Relationships and community | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0455 | USA | Rededication, peace, and the future | — | Clervaux |
Notes
Five plates in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-09): photo-0171 (USA), photo-0213 (USA), photo-0215 (USA), photo-0217 (USA), photo-0455 (USA). All five plates set in the USA. Born 1904; died 1984 per src-icp-gjon-mili-archive (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09; right-hand panel renders ‘1904 - 1984’ / ‘American’) and src-wikipedia-gjon-mili-pointer (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09; verbatim lead: ‘Gjon Mili (November 28, 1904 – February 14, 1984) was an Albanian photographer from Korçë who developed his profession in America’). NATIONALITY: src-icp-gjon-mili-archive prints ‘American’ (post-naturalization framing); src-wikipedia-gjon-mili-pointer prints ‘Albanian photographer … who developed his profession in America’. The canonical hyphenated ‘Albanian-American’ form recorded here reflects scholarly convention and the biographical fact (born in Korçë in the Ottoman Empire / present-day Albania, emigrated to the U.S. in 1923). The November 28, 1904 / February 14, 1984 day-month tokens carry pointer status from src-wikipedia-gjon-mili-pointer; ICP records year-only resolution. Korçë (Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire) birthplace verbatim per src-wikipedia-gjon-mili-pointer; childhood in Romania attending Gheorghe Lazăr National College in Bucharest also from same source. Emigration to U.S. 1923 verbatim per both src-icp-gjon-mili-archive (‘Gjon Mili immigrated to the United States in 1923’) and src-wikipedia-gjon-mili-pointer (‘migrating to the United States in 1923’). MIT electrical engineering degree (1927) verbatim per src-icp-gjon-mili-archive (‘studied electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon graduation in 1927, he worked for Westinghouse as a lighting research engineer until 1938’). Stroboscopic photography pioneering work with Harold Edgerton at MIT verbatim per both sources. Life magazine freelance work from 1939 verbatim per src-icp-gjon-mili-archive (‘Mili worked freelance for the magazine from 1939 until his death’). Pre-FoM MoMA exhibition history: the ICP page records ‘Among his many exhibitions were Dancers in Movement and On Picasso with Robert Capa, both at the Museum of Modern Art’ — a separate MoMA-Mili curatorial relationship that predates the 1955 FoM opening and may anchor the curatorial pathway by which Mili’s five plates reached Steichen. Neither ICP nor Wikipedia mentions FoM by name on Mili’s pages (verified by string-search 2026-05-09); the connection is anchored at the plate level via src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist.
External biography
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/gjon-mili
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