Lennart nilsson biography examples

Swedish photographer (–)

For other people named Lennart Nilsson, see Lennart Nilsson (disambiguation).

Lennart Nilsson (24 August &#; 28 January )^[1] was a Swedishphotographer noted for his photographs of humanembryos and other medical subjects once considered unphotographable, and more generally for his extreme macro photography. He was also considered to be among Sweden’s first modern photojournalists.

Biography

Lennart Nilsson was born in Strängnäs, Sweden. His father worked at the railway as a repairman^[2] and gave Lennart Nilsson a camera when Lennart Nilsson was twelve years old. When he was around fifteen, he saw a documentary about Louis Pasteur that made him interested in microscopy. Within a few years, Nilsson had acquired a microscope and was making microphotographs of insects.

In his late teens and twenties, he began taking a series of environmental portraits with an Icoflex Zeiss camera, and had the opportunity to phot