One of photography’s watershed moments occurred in 1965, when the cover of Life magazine featured Lennart Nilsson’s photograph of a living human embryo—the first time life at such an early stage had been captured on film. His classic bestseller A Child Is Born featured stunning photographs of life in the womb and earned him the sobriquet “The da Vinci of medical photography” (Chicago Tribune). Now, in this major work, Nilsson’s extraordinary images encompass a full human lifespan. Using the world’s most exacting equipment, Nilsson reveals the interior form of the entire human body and its intricate workings as never seen before, in a book that is as stunning to behold as its contents. Featuring thoughtful essays by both a noted scientist and a renowned editor, LIFE shines a penetrating light on all of life’s fundamentals.

Life

Arts & Photography

Lennart Nilsson

Individual Artists

Random House]

A Child is Born

Lennart Nilsson's unique photographic story -- a universal introduction to the miracle of life. In 1965 Lennart Nilsson published images from inside the human uterus, the first photographs of prenatal life. The book that was to follow, A Child is Born, stunned the world -- offering an unprecedented glimpse at the unseen world within our bodies, and our own beginnings. Using high-definition ultrasound technique, scanning electron and light microscopes, and advanced fibre optics Lennart Nilsson documents the miracle of human reproduction: the egg travelling down the fallopian tube; the sperm racing to meet it; the moment of fertilization; the very first cell division; the tiny embryo attaching to the uterine wall; the growth of eyes, ears, fingers and toes; and finally the moment of delivery itself -- providing an astonishing glimpse of the first moments of life. In this, the fully revised fifth edition, A Child is Born is redefined for a new age. With a completely new accompanying text, the images are rendered in astonishing detail utilising revolutionary new photographic technology, with the photographs themselves the dominant driving force of the narrative.

A Child Is Born

Parenting & Relationships

DELACORTE PRESS

Brief explanations of the reproductive process with chapter titles such as "How did you get in?", "How were you fed in there?", and "Your birthday."

How Was I Born?: A Story in Pictures

Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence

Shows the inside of the human digestive and respiratory tracts and explains how the immune system works

The Body Victorious

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Faber and Faber

How Was I Born?

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Bt Bound

How You Began: a Story in Pictures

Kestrel Books

Being Born

A simple text and color photographs chronicle the nine-month  journey from conception to birth, describing the actions and  development of the embryo and fetus. Reprint. H. C. PW.

sheila-kitzinger

Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd.

Leben Bilder aus dem Inneren des menschlichen Koerpers

Knesebeck

Osterreichische Lokomotiven und Triebwagen 1978.01.01

Rene Sjostrand

Verlag Frank Stenvall

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