1904年生於阿爾巴尼亞，Gjon Mili童年在羅馬尼亞度過，1923年到美國麻省理工（Massaschusetts Institute of Technology）學習電子工程，畢業後一直研究照明相關的項目。除了是工程師，他也是一位自學成才的攝影師，1930年代中，麻省理工教授Harold E. Edgerton發明電子閃燈後，二人在此基礎上開創頻閃攝影（Stroboscopic Photography），Gjon Mili似乎也找到方向，他變得很有想法，攝影技巧也進步神速。
It was with a series of flashes, called stroboscopic photography, that he created his version of the Duchamps painting ''Nude Descending a Staircase.''
''Gjon Mili: Photographs and Recollections,'' ''Photographs of Picasso,'' ''The Magic of Opera'' and ''Picasso et la Troisi eme Dimension.''
He is perhaps best known for a photograph of Lindy dancers in midair and one of Pablo Picasso as he sketched a figure in the air with a pen light. 'The Definitive Picture'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkRWKQHcJc
Gene Thornton, reviewing a 1980 retrospective of Mr. Mili's works in The New York Times, said: ''During his long connection with Life, Mili was best known for his sharply focused stopmotion photographs of people and things that moved too fast to be seen by the unaided eye. The viewer often felt that Mili's photograph was the definitive picture of a particular action.''
The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, commenting on Mr. Mili's work, said, ''I admire his sense of economy, his respect for craftmanship and his distaste for pretensions.''
Mr. Mili was born in Albania in 1904 and immigrated to the United States in 1923 to study electrical engineering at the Massaschusetts Institute of Technology.
He received an engineering degree from the university in 1927 and worked on lighting research with the Westinghouse Lamp Company until 1937. 'Advancing by Leaps and Bounds'
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