Maxime Guyon

AIRCRAFT

The New Anatomy

At a turning point in the history of the aeronautic era, Aircraft: The New Anatomy challenges the perception of the aviation industry and common conventions of photography. Between 2017 and 2020, French artist Maxime Guyon visited major European airplane manufacturers and other key players in this industry. With a strong conceptual aesthetic and a fascination for details, Guyon has created a photographic essay that approaches this topic in a whole new way. The series of images explores the captivating evolution of the aircraft industry as well as the constant expectation of progress within technology.

Combining the principles of “form follows function” and the aesthetics of our post- industrial era, the book reopens the visual discussion that was first introduced in 1935 by Le Corbusier’s publication Aircraft: The New Vision.

At a turning point in the history of the aeronautic era, Aircraft: The New Anatomy challenges the perception of the aviation industry and common conventions of photography. Between 2017 and 2020, French artist Maxime Guyon visited major European airplane manufacturers and other key players in this industry. With a strong conceptual aesthetic and a fascination for details, Guyon has created a photographic essay that approaches this topic in a whole new way. The series of images explores the captivating evolution of the aircraft industry as well as the constant expectation of progress within technology.

Combining the principles of “form follows function” and the aesthetics of our post- industrial era, the book reopens the visual discussion that was first introduced in 1935 by Le Corbusier’s publication Aircraft: The New Vision.


Whether you’re interested in tech or not, it’s hard to ignore the astounding might of the depicted objects.
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Author(s): Maxime Guyon

Edited by Maxime Guyon

With a contribution by Nicolas Nova

Design: Frederik Mahler-Andersen

22 × 28 cm, 8 ½ × 11 in

126 pages, 70 illustrations

hardback

2020, 978-3-03778-634-5, English
CHF 35.00
Out of print

Maxime Guyon

Maxime Guyon is an artist and commercial photographer working in Paris. He contributed to the creation of the Master Photography program at ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne in 2015 alongside Milo Keller and worked as a researcher for ECAL at the same time for the project called “Augmented Photography” in 2017. His work explores sculptural dimensions as well as the ubiquitous dematerialization within the medium of photography.