{"id":80768,"date":"2018-07-20T02:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T09:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/fitter-happier-mattheiu-gafsou-investigates-transhumanism-in-new-book-and-exhibition"},"modified":"2018-07-20T02:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T09:22:42","slug":"fitter-happier-mattheiu-gafsou-investigates-transhumanism-in-new-book-and-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/fitter-happier-mattheiu-gafsou-investigates-transhumanism-in-new-book-and-exhibition","title":{"rendered":"Fitter Happier: Mattheiu Gafsou Investigates Transhumanism in New Book and Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fitter-happier-mattheiu-gafsou-investigates-transhumanism-in-new-book-and-exhibition.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transhumanists aim to do just that: to transcend the limits of the human body through the use of technology. Swiss photographer Matthieu Gafsou\u2019s new book, H+ (Kehrer Verlag), documents Transhumanism through portraiture, still lifes and documentary photographs of Tranhumanist people, facilities, tools and technology. In photographing surgical procedures, laboratories, conferences and the like, Gafsou employed a hard flash to add a \u201cclinical aspect\u201d to his pictures. \u201cThis was important to me because I think [Transhumanism] is quite cold and [it] is about, not necessarily killing death but working on living longer,\u201d he tells PDN. \u201cBut we are forgetting the body, we are forgetting the flesh, we are forgetting desire.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In \u201cH+,\u201d Gafsou uses the visual language of science and technology to explore Transhumanism, the belief that the human body needs to be enhanced, perhaps even overcome.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdnonline.com\/features\/photo-books\/fitter-happier-mattheiu-gafsou-investigates-transhumanism-in-new-book-and-exhibition\/\">https:\/\/www.pdnonline.com\/features\/photo-books\/fitter-happie...xhibition\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transhumanists aim to do just that: to transcend the limits of the human body through the use of technology. Swiss photographer Matthieu Gafsou\u2019s new book, H+ (Kehrer Verlag), documents Transhumanism through portraiture, still lifes and documentary photographs of Tranhumanist people, facilities, tools and technology. In photographing surgical procedures, laboratories, conferences and the like, Gafsou employed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}