Lennart Nilsson

Lennart Nilsson ( born August 22, 1922 in Strängnäs ) is a Swedish photographer and filmmaker science. His pioneering work is to recordings of embryos and microscopic images of human body tissue, bacteria and viruses.

Photographer Lennart Nilsson

Originally a photojournalist, he became known in 1953 with his scientific photography. In 1955 he presented his first exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Published in 1965 by the New York Life magazine in the issue dated 30 April his recordings embryos together with a contribution from him as the cover story. Also in 1965 appeared the first edition of his until now appeared in numerous revisions of the book A child is created, which was translated into English in 1967 and from there into many other languages. Furore made ​​the documentary The Miracle of Life (PBS 1983), so to speak, accompanied the journey of a sperm to the egg with ' subjective camera'.

Nilsson's photographs and descriptions coined the popular idea of ​​how a fetus is formed in the womb and grows, mainly - yes the first time made ​​the general public visible something that was visualized only in pathologies and for medical professionals before. Then there was an aesthetic of images: The fetuses illuminated reddish- transparent dark background and seemed almost to float in the womb. Became famous for a picture in which the fetus holds the thumb close to the mouth, as if he would suck on it. The rhetoric of the texts accompanying the images and films was carried by the pathos of the great expedition into the interior of man.

His best-known book on the prenatal development A child creates preceded eleven years of preparation time. Also for the new edition of 1990 on five years of work were needed. More recently, he created images of cells and their fine structures of life and of disease processes, bacteria and viruses - including for his book A Journey into the interior of our body. For this purpose he used the scanning electron microscope technique.

Lennart Nilsson is a member of the Swedish Society of Medicine and an honorary member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the IWF Knowledge and Media. His work has been honored with three Emmy Awards, among others. He received an honorary doctorate in 2002 from the Technical University of Braunschweig and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, where he also has his lab. In 1980 he received the Hasselblad Award. Meanwhile, even a prize is named after him, the 100,000 Swedish kronor ( 11,000 euros ) doped Lennart Nilsson Award.

Works

  • Lennart Nilsson et al: Ett barn blir till. Bildskildring En av de nio månaderna före födelsen (Photos: Lennart Nilsson, Text: Axel Ingelman - Sundberg and Claes Wirsén ). Albert Bonnier, Stockholm 1965 - Engl. The everyday miracle. A child is born. Translated by Britt and Claes Wirsén, Annabelle MacMillan. Allen Lane / Penguin Press, London 1967 - Dt. A child is created.. Photographic documentation of the development of human life in the womb. Dt. Edit: Hellmuth Merkl. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1967. 160 pages. - Advanced edition and d T. A child is created. Photographic documentation of the development of life in the womb (Photos: Lennart Nilsson Text:. . Lars Hamberger Übers: Angelika Kutsch ). Mosaic -Verlag, Munich 1990. 213 pages. ISBN 3-570-04918-3
  • Lennart Nilsson et al: Så blev you till. En fotoberättelse (Photos: Lennart Nilsson, Text: Jan Cornell and Rune Petterson; Medical Consulting: Axel Ingelman - Sundberg; drawings: By Birger Lundquist ). Albert Bonnier, Stockholm 1975 - Engl. How you started. A story in pictures. Kestrel Books, Harmondsworth 1975 - Dt. Way you came into the world.. From conception to birth. An education for children. With many photos ( translator's Perdita Pasche ). Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1975. 31 pages. ISBN 3-570-05375- X
  • Lennart Nilsson: A journey into the interior of our body. The defense system of the human organism (in collaboration with Jan Lindberg, text by Kjell Lindquist and Stig Nordfeldt; . Engl Übers of Clare James; German Transfr by Ernst Peter Fischer). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1987. 194 pages.
  • Lennart Nilsson, Hans Wigzell: Livet. Max Ström, Stockholm 2006 - Dt. Lives. Pictures of the inside of the human body ( translator's: Rita Seuss ). Knesebeckstraße -Verlag, Munich 2006. 302 pages. ISBN 3-89660-340 -X.

Movies

  • The Miracle of Life. PBS 1983 - Dt: .. The miracle of life
  • Fascination life., Editor and Director: Mikael Agaton, Lars Rengfelt. Production: Wanngard AB, Bo G. Erikson Television 1996 Editor:. Christian Floto. A co- production by Sveriges Television SVT 1 and others, in collaboration with Arte and others. (3 parts: 1 Origin and early; 2 Unknown Worlds, 3 The Miracle on the track The 54 min. )
  • Discoveries for life. A film by Lennart Nilsson and Mikael Agaton. Written and directed by Mikael Agaton and Staffan Bergquist. Stem cells Photography: Anke Brederlau. Production: Agaton Film & Television, 2003 Editor:. Heidemarie Petters and Gunther Vogel. A co- production of ZDF and other (Des découvertes pour la vie). 45 minutes.
  • Awe Love - the miracle of life. Filmproduktion for ZDF, DVD production A., the Bavarian State Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Family and Women. Documentary by Lennart Nilsson. Production: Matthias movie 2001.

Quotes

  • Seeing is believing. ( in analogy to Da Vinci, in: Life, p 294 )
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