woensdag 28 januari 2015

A Child is Born: Photographs of the foetus developing in the womb Lennart Nilsson MODERN TIMES Photography in the 20th Century Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

20 weeks. Approximately 20cm. Woolly hair, known as lanugo, covers the entire head


A Child is Born: Photographs of the foetus developing in the womb, by Lennart Nilsson

When Lennart Nilsson's pictures of developing embryos were published in Life magazine in 1965, they caused a sensation. Within days, the entire print run of eight million had sold out. More than 40 years later, the photographs have lost none of their power.

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MODERN TIMES

Photography in the 20th Century


Author:Matti Boom, Hans Roosenboom

Publisher:nai010, Rijksmuseum

ISBN:978-94-6208-176-5

After the successful reopening of the Rijksmuseum in April of 2013, the museum’s Philips Wing will reopen in November with 'Modern Times', a major survey of twentieth-century photography compiled from the Rijksmuseum’s collection. This collection has grown spectacularly, particularly during the last decade, and now includes many masterpieces by world-famous photographers including André Kertész, Brassaï, Robert Capa, László Moholy-Nagy, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Weegee, William Klein, Cas Oorthuys, and Eva Besnyö.

With more than 350 photographs, the book 'Modern Times. Photography in the 20th Century' forms an impressive overview of the developments that took place during the twentieth century in photography, which grew by leaps and bounds into the ubiquitous and influential medium that we know today.











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