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History
Photography comes from the Greek words phos (“light”), and graphis (“stylus”, “paintbrush”) or graphí, together they mean “drawing with light”. Light Painting Photography can be broken down into 3 general categories. The first is Light Drawing this is where the light source can be seen by the camera, during a long exposure the artist uses this light source to draw or create a design within the frame. The second category is Kinetic Light Painting, for this light painting technique the lights in the scene generally remain stationary while the camera itself is moved about during a long exposure to create color and design within the frame. The third category is Light Painting, this is where the artist uses handheld light sources to selectively illuminate parts of a scene during a long exposure photograph. The history below identifies many of the pioneers of Light Painting Photography. If you know of someone who should be included on the list and is not, please send us an email.
Étienne-Jules Marey and Georges Demeny: Light Painting 1889
Étienne-Jules Marey and Georges Demeny first met when Demeny enrolled in a physiology course being taught by Marey. The soon became close associates. Together they established a programme of re
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GJON MILI’S 1943 JAM SESSION
Thanks to jazz scholar and old friend David Weiner, I encountered this glorious photograph two nights ago. Gjon Mili is known to most of us as the man behind the 1944 film JAMMIN’ THE BLUES, but he made his primary mark as a still photgrapher, shooting many pictures at jam sessions staged for LIFE. Now that Google has made the picture archives of that long-lived weekly magazine available, we can all enjoy such lively archaeology.
If you can’t wait to see previously unknown pictures of Mildred Bailey, James P. Johnson, Eddie Condon and friends, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and others, the link to the site is http://images.google.com/hosted/life and I’ve already spent a good deal of time there. It is fascinating not only for the jazz players, but for the glimpses of what is, for most of us, a lost world — where, as John Cheever once wrote, all the men wore hats. If you enter the search term “jam session,” always a good idea, you will find 183 images including everyone from Gene Krupa to George Wettling to Dizzy Gillespie and Vic Dickenson.
The picture above is a wonderfully odd mix of players: the man at far left, holding a glass, might be drummer Zutty Singleton. To his right, the altoist ha
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The story goes that when photographer Gjon Mili visited Picasso’s accommodation in 1949, he showed the chief these closeups he’d entranced in 1945 of Carol Lynne skating with flashlights embedded deduct her boots:
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Mili did rendering light shot with myriad other kinds of artists:
There are lashings of his curiosities press the Mili LIFE archives. Here’s an visual of a housewife ironing from a Sept. 9, 1946 opening on “Easier Housekeeping”:
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