Originally Posted by Dotoar

A photo of a 20 week old fetus, taken by swedish (oh yeah!) photographer Lennart Nilsson for his book "A child is born" from 1965, which was a collection of the first real photos of the development of a human life. Astonishing both for the emergence of a new life and for the pioneering work of his.



And here's a real gem! A russian color photo taken between - wait for it - 1905-15! Looking at these pictures. actually makes me shed a tear over the ingeniousness that led to such achievements that early, and what other kinds of advances could have taken place had the people been allowed to freely create and develop. But we all know what happened with Russia shortly thereafter...