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Life as you've never seen it
New York Daily News ^
| October 12, 2006
| JULIAN KESNER
Posted on 10/12/2006 8:14:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
Famed photog takes us inside the human experience
It's a journey through the human body never imagined. Here are the most stunning, detailed photos of new human life ever photographed - published in the United States for the first time.
Titled "Life," the collection of oversize color images from scientific photographer Lennart Nilsson magnifies the wonders of the human body like never before.
Nilsson is best known for his iconic 1965 Life magazine cover shot of a living human embryo - the first time that life at such an early stage was captured on camera.
Using the world's most powerful electron microscope in Sweden, Nilsson has documented everything from the inner ventricles of the brain and plaque deposits on teeth, to the HIV virus encompassing a white blood cell - all blown up to show exacting detail.
But most impressive is the step-by-step photos of a fetus forming, shown in the photo gallery below. While such images won't quell the abortion debate anytime soon, their beauty alone deserves pause and admiration.
The human body, at 20 weeks, comes into focus
in a photograph from "Life,"
a collection of color images
from scientific photographer Lennart Nilsson that
magnifies the wonders of the human body like never before.
Photographer: Nilsson, Lennart
Filename: 7k500k2b
For more pictures click here
TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: abortion; baby; dailynews; embryo; fetalpictures; fetus; pictures; prolife; sweeden
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posted on
10/12/2006 8:14:23 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: cpforlife.org
To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
Using the world's most powerful electron microscope in Sweden, Nilsson has documented everything from the inner ventricles of the brain and plaque deposits on teeth, to the HIV virus encompassing a white blood cell - all blown up to show exacting detail.
Do you have any more info on this?
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posted on
10/12/2006 8:19:34 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: Kaslin
And some say this is just tissue, to be removed from a mother at her whim.
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posted on
10/12/2006 8:20:00 PM PDT
by
Ottofire
(Fire Tempers Steel)
To: kinoxi
I was just pinging the pro life list -- I didn't post the thread.
To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
Sorry, thanks.
:)
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posted on
10/12/2006 8:27:09 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: Kaslin
Post #3. I pinged the wrong person.
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posted on
10/12/2006 8:28:17 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: Kaslin
liberals hate these photos.
8
posted on
10/12/2006 8:30:55 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
To: Kaslin
More amazing pictures
here
9
posted on
10/12/2006 8:34:50 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(No matter what the left says. G.W. Bush will be remembered as the best president of this century)
To: kinoxi
No I don't have any infirmation
10
posted on
10/12/2006 8:35:59 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(No matter what the left says. G.W. Bush will be remembered as the best president of this century)
To: Kaslin
11
posted on
10/12/2006 8:38:18 PM PDT
by
Ignatz
(Click your mouse three times and repeat, "There's no place like 127.0.0.1")
To: Kirkwood
12
posted on
10/12/2006 8:38:57 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(No matter what the left says. G.W. Bush will be remembered as the best president of this century)
To: Ignatz
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posted on
10/12/2006 8:40:17 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(No matter what the left says. G.W. Bush will be remembered as the best president of this century)
To: kinoxi
Not a problem :-)
Amazing pictures!
To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
Amazing pictures!
Yes they are.
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posted on
10/12/2006 9:01:57 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: Kaslin
...And this one is the inside of George Cloony's left eustation tube, illuminated from the outside by two halogen lamps...
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posted on
10/12/2006 9:50:13 PM PDT
by
dr_who_2
To: Kaslin
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posted on
10/12/2006 9:55:12 PM PDT
by
Ignatz
(Click your mouse three times and repeat, "There's no place like 127.0.0.1")
To: Kaslin
Forget Roe v Wade let's require that these pictures be shown to every woman(and her hsband/boyfriend/parents if there is one involved) who goes to a clinic to get an abortion and then require that she has to wait 24 hours to make her decision. It won't stop them all, but it would make a huge dent.
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posted on
10/12/2006 10:00:37 PM PDT
by
redangus
To: Ignatz
Nilsson, Schmilsson. So ...you're into Dobsonians -- but don't appreciate fine technical photography.
Curious combination...
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posted on
10/12/2006 10:15:27 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: Ignatz
AH -- that clarifies things... '-}
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posted on
10/12/2006 10:18:34 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: Coleus; nickcarraway; narses; Mr. Silverback; Canticle_of_Deborah; TenthAmendmentChampion; ...
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posted on
10/12/2006 10:50:13 PM PDT
by
cpforlife.org
(A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available at KnightsForLife.org)
To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...
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posted on
10/12/2006 10:55:17 PM PDT
by
Coleus
(Abortion and Euthanasia, Don't Democrats and Pro-life Republicans who vote for Title X just kill ya!)
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posted on
10/13/2006 5:00:44 AM PDT
by
Museum Twenty
(Proudly supporting President George W. Bush - Proudly shouting "Rumsfeld '08!")
To: Kaslin; 4lifeandliberty; AbsoluteGrace; afraidfortherepublic; Alamo-Girl; anniegetyourgun; ...
Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!
Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping list...
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posted on
10/13/2006 5:53:49 AM PDT
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: Ignatz
Thanks, I didn't know that
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posted on
10/13/2006 5:55:43 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(No matter what the left says. G.W. Bush will be remembered as the best president of this century)
To: cgk
Thank you for the beautiful ping!
To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
You're welcome, and the pictures at the link in the article are even more beautiful! :)
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posted on
10/13/2006 6:52:20 AM PDT
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: cgk
To: cgk
To: cpforlife.org
To: cpforlife.org; Kaylee Frye
As far as ordering Nilsson's book goes - his pictures are gorgeous. But they had to be made in collaboration with abortionists.
Mrs VS
To: VeritatisSplendor
Do you have evidence of that? I'm not seeing anything about that anywhere...
To: Kaslin
QUIZ TIME
1) This is a picture of a:
a) Baby
b) Choice
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posted on
10/14/2006 8:13:17 AM PDT
by
Barnacle
(America, America God shed His grace on thee.)
To: Kaylee Frye; All
Regarding Lennart Nilsson's taking pictures of unborn children who may have been aborted:
I tried a search and couldn't come up with documentation but I did once read that Nilsson took photographs of pregnancies that were ended for "medical reasons." And Nilsson claims to take no position on the abortion controversy.
During the sixties when Nilsson began taking his pictures, there was no fetal surgery or laparoscopic technique and Sweden was the progressive abortion capital of the civilized world. You would not endanger a desired pregnancy by invading the uterus with a camera.
Certainly if you take a picture of a very early embryo with an electron microscope, it's in vitro and it's dead.
Now it might be possible that all of the later embryos or fetuses had died in utero (incomplete miscarriage) or that the pregnancies were ended because of a threat to the mother's life. But given Sweden's abortion policies then and now, I am inclined to doubt it.
It is something to prayerfully consider when you see the photographs or think of buying Nilsson's work.
If I am wrong here, I would appreciate any information to the contrary and I am deeply sorry for slandering Nilsson.
Mrs VS
To: Barnacle
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posted on
10/14/2006 10:05:06 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(No matter what the left says. G.W. Bush will be remembered as the best president of this century)
To: Kaslin
That image is stunningly beautiful. I don't know why the pro-abortionists can't see that.
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posted on
10/14/2006 10:59:23 AM PDT
by
my_pointy_head_is_sharp
(Pornography kills - a man's soul, a woman's spirit, a child's body.)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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posted on
10/14/2006 11:06:56 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(No matter what the left says. G.W. Bush will be remembered as the best president of this century)
To: VeritatisSplendor
Well, all I saw was one place where he was described as putting the cameras in during amniocentesis and how proud the mother was that she could see her child. Didn't sound like an abortion... He also talked about how incredibly difficult it was to capture the implantation pics... Like I say, may be that his earlier works were all with abortions, but I see no evidence that this book is based upon abortions... Personally, I'd like to see a copy of the book and judge for myself...
To: All
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posted on
01/16/2007 4:26:05 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Ignatz
"You're breakin' my heart, you're tearin' it apart...."
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posted on
01/16/2007 4:28:05 PM PST
by
LexBaird
(98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
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