The Guardian:
When Lennart Nilsson's haunting photographs were first published in 1965, they caused a sensation. Charting pre-natal life from conception to birth in unprecedented detail, the magazine that printed them, Life, sold 8m copies in four days.
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Some of the images of delicate embryos were taken by a regular Hasselblad camera with macro lens. For others, the Stockholm-born Nilsson used a specially built endoscope with a tiny lens or scanning electron microscopes, to capture activity on a cellular level. He would go on to use ultrasound techniques to create three-dimensional images of unborn children, but these photographs remain the most iconic pictures of reproduction ever taken.
Photo gallery here.
The historian in me wants to know: what are the names of the people being featured here? Did they survive to birth? How do they feel about being photographed in a prenatal state?
