Gjon Mili

Behind TIME's Science of Exercise Cover

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See the Many Faces of Edith Piaf

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See Photos From the Musical That Nearly Swept the Tonys in 1962

In the run-up to the 69th Tony Awards, a look back at one of the honor's biggest winners

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Adolf Eichmann in Israel: Portraits of a Nazi War Criminal

Recent reports that the world's most wanted Nazi -- a notorious sadist named Alois Brunner -- died in Syria four years ago brought to mind these photos of his boss, Adolf Eichmann, awaiting execution in Israel in the early '60s.

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Tina Turner: Unpublished Photos of the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll

LIFE.com presents previously unpublished photos taken in 1970 by Gjon Mili

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'Movement Itself': Gorgeous Color Photos of Stravinsky-Inspired Ballets

"The important thing in ballet," George Balanchine said, "is movement itself," a thought that photographer Gjon Mili vividly expresses in these photographs.

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Sweet Simplicity: Blowing Soap Bubbles for the Very First Time

Photos by LIFE's Gjon Mili of a young girl playing with soap bubbles for the first time capture so many aspects of childhood: the wonder, the innocence, the simplicity.

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Joe Louis: Celebrating the 'Brown Bomber' on His 100th Birthday

On his 100th birthday (he was born May 13, 1914, in Alabama), LIFE.com celebrates the man known to several generations as the 'Brown Bomber.'

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Eire Apparent: Recalling Sean O'Casey's Vanished Ireland

LIFE photographer Gjon Mili's pictures from the 1950s recall an Ireland that today endures largely in memory and in the country's astonishing literature.

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LIFE With Picasso: Genius at Work and at Play, 1948-1967

LIFE.com celebrates Pablo Picasso's career with a series of pictures made by photographer Gjon Mili over roughly two decades in the middle part of the last century.

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National Running Day: Portraits of Speed, Grace and Power

On National Running Day, LIFE.com offers photos by a pioneer of stroboscopic photography, Gjon Mili, celebrating the beauty, grace and power of the sport.

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Rare Photos From the Set of 'Porgy and Bess'

Not too many musical classics have experienced the sort of polar-opposite reactions from audiences and critics that Porgy and Bess has elicited ever since it debuted on Broadway in 1935.

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'West Side Story': Photos From the Set of a Hollywood Classic

LIFE.com presents a series of photos by Gjon Mili made on the set of West Side Story. Some ran in LIFE; many more were not published in the magazine; all of them help capture the making of a movie classic.

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Stan Douglas Named the Recipient of ICP's Infinity Award for Art

Stan Douglas has been named the recipient of the prestigious Infinity Award for Art by the International Center of Photography, which will be presented tonight. Lightbox visits highlights of three projects from the artist’s prolific photographic endeavors.

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Big Shots: Photography at 'The Sports Show'

Can you really mount a worthwhile retrospective of sports photography without some of the most iconic athletes and moments? Turns out you can. In fact, "The Sports Show," a photography and new-media exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is better off for it.

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It's About Time: Classic Stroboscopic Photos

Technically brilliant pictures by Gjon Mili that fiddle with moments, junctures, sequences -- and in the process offer a playful commentary on the slippery nature of Time.

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Giants at Play: LIFE With Jazz Legends

Rare and classic photos of Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young and other jazz legends playing at photographer Gjon Mili's "smoky sweaty barn of a studio" in the 1940s.

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