Here's How to emerging human life

The photographer Lennart Nilsson spent 10 years of his life on it to remove the evolution of the embryo from conception to birth Nilsson got international fame in 1965 when LIFE magazine published a 16-page photo of a human embryo. These photos are immediately replicated in Stern, Paris Match, The Sunday Times and other journals, bringing the photographer Lennart Nilsson international fame.

Since childhood, the microscope and the camera were the main hobbies Nilsson, who wanted to show the world the beauty of the human body at the cellular level. Photos human fetus Nilsson managed to get in 1957, but they were not yet sufficiently spectacular to show them to the public.

Get the most accurate and colorful pictures helped him a cystoscope - a medical device by means of which examine the bladder from the inside. Nilsson attach the camera and the light guide and made thousands of images of baby's life inside the uterus.

So skillful hands Lennart Nilsson created a miracle showed the world the mystery of the origin of human life.

The sperm in the fallopian tube moves toward yaytsekletke



Yaytsekletka.

Fateful vstre

One of the 200 million sperm his father broke the shell yaytsekletki

Sperm in the section. The head contains the entire genetic material.

A week later, the embryo, sliding down the fallopian tube, moves to matku

A week later the embryo attaches to the mucosa matki

On the 18th day of the embryo begins to pulsate serdtse

22 day embryo development. Gray matter - is the future head mozg

The 28th day after oplodotvoreniya

5 weeks, the length of 9 mm, have guessed the face with holes for mouth, nostrils and eyes

40 days. Outside the cell nucleus fused with a loose surface of the uterus and form platsentu

8 nedel

10 weeks. Eyelids are already half open. Within a few days, they will form polnostyu.

10 weeks. The kid is already using his hands to study okrestnostey

16 nedel.

Through the thin skin is visible network of blood sosudov

18 weeks. The fetus can perceive sounds from the external mira

19 weeks - he has already appeared nogti.

20 weeks. Height about 20 cm. At the head begin to appear volosy

24 nedeli

6 mesyatsev

36 weeks. A month later, the baby will be born.

In 1965 he published a book of photos Nilsson «A Child is Born», sold out in a few days. The book has stood the many editions and still remains one of the best selling books in the history of this kind of photo albums.

Now medical pioneer photos Lennart Nilsson '91. Science and photography, he has been until now.