Behind The Lens: An Interview with Lennart Nilsson NOVA: Tell me about the first time you used an endoscope . LN: In the spring of '65, Life Magazine published a story about human reproduction -- a cover and sixteen pages. I worked for twelve years on this story. One of the pictures was the face of an embryo inside the uterus taken with an endoscope with an electronic flash. And I remember that ...

From the tiniest of worlds, he provides illustrations of the journey, from the moment at which life first begins to the senescent body and its constricted blood vessels... He goes exploring for us... ...