Life

Life

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One of photography’s watershed moments occurred in 1965, when the cover of <I>Life</I> 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 <I>A Child Is Born</I> featured stunning photographs of life in the womb and earned him the sobriquet “The da Vinci of medical photography” (<I>Chicago Tribune</I>). Now, in this major work, Nilsson’s extraordinary images encompass a full human lifespan. <BR><BR>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, <I>LIFE</I> shines a penetrating light on all of life’s fundamentals.