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Loading ...One of the first pictures taken with the endoscope. It shows a fetus in a pregnant woman. The picture was taken by Lennart Nilsson and showed to LIFE’s editors, they demanded that witnesses confirm that they were seeing what they thought they were seeing. The picture was considered many years the symbol of humanity.
Photographer: Lennart Nilsson
Source: life.com
Lennart Nilsson’s eerie images of an fetus floating in the amniotic fluid, first published in LIFE magazine in 1965, changed the way we think about pregnancy. Ironically, they were later used for pro-life activism even though they were taken of aborted embryos, not in utero as is often assumed.
This is were life begins.
I heard a different story… that it was in fact a dead fetus. Despite the beauty of the image, it was impossible to be an endoscopic photo. But I have to do a search on this now to be sure…
I wonder who that baby was (or is, today) and who his mother was. It would be so cool to find out and be the one it and have everyone know who you were.
Subhanalah Walhamdulillah, Allahu Akbar
I have the original LIFE magazine with this entire spread in it. Found it at an antique store years ago. The whole thing is fantastic…
its me . LIFE still pays me 147 $ a month.
wow gorgeous!!
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how could this be endoscopic? the placenta is entirely detached from the uterus.
does anyone know? who is the fetus? what happened to them?
So freaking cool!