“Lennart Nilsson: Borders of Science” at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina hosts an exhibition entitled “Lennart Nilsson: Borders of Science” in the period from 25 April until next October. This exhibition includes the works of Lennart Nilsson; the well-known reporter and research.
Biography:
Born in 1922, Lennart Nilsson started out early on his own, as a freelance journalist working on contract for a publishing house in Stockholm. One of his first assignments was to cover the liberation of Oslo, Norway in 1945. Nilsson""s work covers more than half a century from the mid-1940s, when modern photojournalism made its break-through in Sweden. The artistic works of Nilsson reflect his possessing of an eye of a journalist, the sensitive touch of an artist, as well as the talent of giving the photograph the touch of a soul which makes it look as a moving living organism.
Nilsson""s most famous works:
Lennart Nilsson used video cameras which enabled him to produce a number of documentary, scientific and educational television programs presented in the greatest scientific institutions.
In the 1960s specially designed, very thin endoscopes made it possible for him to photograph the blood vessels and the cavities of the human body. Nilsson was also able to photograph the cells and macro organisms whose length reached 1/million of a millimeter, and was thus able to illustrate, through his book entitled “A Child is Born”, the life of a child since its beginning, passing through the stage at which it was an embryo in its mother""s uterus and until the moment of its birth.
In the 1970s Nilsson approached the outer space when “NASA” sent its two spacecrafts Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to a number of the planets of the solar system like Jupiter and Saturn.
The two spacecrafts carried his photographs from “A Child is Born”, as a message from Earth which may reach a recipient some where in space one day.
Nilsson began experimenting with new photographic techniques to report on flowers, the world of ants and life in the sea. Some elements of this collection were then selected to be engraved on the 100 Swedish Corona coins.
Nilsson presented a number of distinguished pictures about the AIDS disease and other lethal cells.
“The Saga of Life” is considered one of the most important programs that Nilsson prepared and produced in 1982. This program approaches the different phases of embryo development. The program won the national and International Emmy Award for television programs.
Nilsson""s exhibitions around the Globe:
Nilsson""s first exhibition was held in the capital of Sweden in 1963. He has a number of permanent exhibitions in Brazil, France, Scotland, Spain, United States of America and many other countries.
In recognition of Nilsson""s pioneering role in the field of scientific and medical research, he was awarded the Swedish Medical Association membership, in addition to an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University in 1976.
In its attempt to acknowledge the Egyptian people with the achievements of this creative reporter and researcher and in recognition of the importance of the works and exhibitions of Lennart Nilsson, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina has organized a special exhibition which includes his most distinguished works in the field of photography.
This exhibition includes almost 90 photographs which illustrate the emergence of life in uterus as well as photographs which illustrate the life in the sea and the world of insects.