Albanian-American photographer’s corner opens in Korca

TIRANA, June 30 – A corner with 15 pictures by late Albanian-American photographer Gjon Mili has been set up in the cultural centre of the southeastern city of Korca where Mili was born in the early 20th century.
Vladimir Topi, the director of the Vangjush Mio cultural centre said the Gjon Mili corner which opened last April was an initiative by the Korca municipality to commemorate the 20th century photographer in his hometown of Korca which he left at a very young age.
Born in 1904 in Korca, Gjon Mili went to the United States in 1923. Fifteen years later, he was a photographer for Life (a relationship that continued until his death in 1984), and his assignments took him to the Riviera (Picasso); to Prades, France (Pablo Casals in exile); to Israel (Adolf Eichmann in captivity); to Florence, Athens, Dublin, Berlin, Venice, Rome, and Hollywood to photograph celebrities and artists, sports events, and concerts, and sculptures and architecture.
Working with Harold Eugene Edgerton of MIT, Gjon Mili was a pioneer since the 1930s in the use of photoflash to capture a sequence of actions in one photograph.