For this 1949 portrait of Pablo Picasso in his studio in the south of France, the artist was inspired by Gjon Mili's previous photos of ice skaters spinning through the air with small lights attached to their skates. Mili left the shutters of his cameras open as Picasso made ephemeral drawings in the air of a darkened room. This one was of one of a centaur. Mili caught the artist himself by using a 1/10,000th-second strobe light. This photo ranks among LIFE's best partly because it actually captures the moment of creation by a genius.
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