Lennart Nilsson

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22 Aug 1922

† 28 Jan 2017

Strängnäs, Södermanlands län, Sweden

Biography

Lennart Nilsson was a Swedish photographer and scientist. He was noted for his photographs of human embryos 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.