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The Corridors of the Heart

Life Magazine|1968|Fotojournalistik, Vetenskapsfotografi

After his work on A Child Is Born and Nature’s Amazing Lenses, Lennart Nilsson continued his pioneering work in scientific photography – this time with a major feature on heart attacks.

Life Magazine, 19 januari 1968

Since much of Nilsson’s work must be done on specimens taken from cadavers, he maintains a workroom adjoining the autopsy section of one of Stockholm’s big hospitals. Here is a place of very bad views and it is a real measure of Nilsson’s devotion that he can bear this overexposure to death.

Loudon Wainwright, Life Magazin

  • Life Magazine 19 januari 1968
  • Life Magazine 19 januari 1968
  • Life Magazine 19 januari 1968
  • Life Magazine 19 januari 1968
  • Life Magazine 19 januari 1968
  • Life Magazine 19 januari 1968
  • Life Magazine 19 januari 1968
  • Life Magazine 19 januari 1968
  • Life Magazine 19 januari 1968
  • Life Magazine 19 januari 1968

Lennart Nilsson and Professor Per-Ingvar Brånemark followed up the series with a film for SVT, Tillbaka till livet (Back to Life), in 1968. The documentary was produced by Claes Wirsén and Lars Wallén.

Lennart Nilsson på cellbiologen i Uppsala, 1968. Han arbetar i ett rum som håller 38 grader. © Lennart Nilsson/TT

“Yesterday I filmed connective tissue cells dividing. It’s the most dramatic thing I’ve ever filmed. And it’s something that happens inside us every second, throughout our lives. That’s what I want people to see.”

(Lennart Nilsson, 1968)