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LENNART NILSSON (1922-2017 ) Photograph of a live fetus in utero, from the series A Child is Born. Dye transfer print, the image measuring 21 5/8x19 inches (54.9x48.3 cm.). Circa 1965; printed before 1971
Provenance: Gift of the Photographer to the Creative Director of the Continental Group Inc., who used this image in 1971 on an award-winning advertisement campaign.
Nilsson was a Swedish photojournalist. In the late 50s, he started experimenting with new photographic techniques, using microscopes to "get closer." His revealing macro studies of the human body's inner mysteries were a big sensation and were published in magazines and books worldwide. In 1965 his groundbreaking images illustrating the beginning of life, from conception to birth, were published in the book A Child is Born, which was a sensation and has since been translated into twenty languages.
