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THE DASSAULT fuselage. Each plane has a story to tell, whether dow each aircraft with a humanistic personality,
RAFALE IS A this is expressed through corrosion or damage as if the faces of the planes were happily smi-
FRENCH TWIN- from war: their skin defects reveal the aircraft’s ling or cautiously glaring. Endless interpretations
ENGINE, CANARD souls. Chrétien, for example, was drawn to the are left to the observer’s imagination. Chrétien
DELTA WING, Etoile de Suisse (“Star of Switzerland”), one of generally carries two types of cameras on his
MULTIROLE
FIGHTER AIRCRAFT the first TWA Constellation aircrafts converted photographic journeys: a Canon EOS 5Ds R and
DESIGNED AND for civilian service, during a photography trip to a Hasselblad H4D-60. When shooting the planes
BUILT BY DASSAULT the Sonoran Desert near Tucson, Arizona. A close in preparation for the Nose Art exhibit, it was
AVIATION. look at this four-engine, propeller-driven airliner not an easy task to photograph their noses high
from 1943 revealed thousands of indentations in up off the ground. Therefore, a trusty tripod and
the aluminium from flying through a torrential a forklift were essential to boost Chrétien fa-
hailstorm – a memorable journey for the pilot ce-to-face with the nose of the plane, creating
and one that left the aircraft with tremendous the best possible angle to photograph these le-
character and a visual chronicle of its history. The gendary flying machines.
eight photographs in the Nose Art exhibition en- www.madgallery.net

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