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AMAZING! Gorgeous B/W documentary of the stillness Burning Man can create. Text gives a great account of the experience as well.
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Burning Man: Art in the Desert
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For one week in August the Burning Man Festival in Nevadas Black Rock Desert brings people together in a spirit of self-reliance and creativity. Art has become the defining feature of Burning Man, as the festival continues to be a testing ground for a growing circle of artists seeking engaged audiences. Their most compelling works are large-scale constructions that are burned at the end of the festival, and radically altered vehicles, or art cars.
Art at Burning Man, like the experience of being there itself, is a way of being outside routine existence: People return home rejuvenated and inspired to seek ways to express the spirit of the festival in their everyday lives. For more than a decade, A. Leo Nash has been creating a photographic document of this work, and in his photographs we see the wellspring of a new art movement.
Art at Burning Man, like the experience of being there itself, is a way of being outside routine existence: People return home rejuvenated and inspired to seek ways to express the spirit of the festival in their everyday lives. For more than a decade, A. Leo Nash has been creating a photographic document of this work, and in his photographs we see the wellspring of a new art movement.
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artphotographynonfiction
160 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1,2007
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160 pages, Hardcover
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June 1, 2007 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
- ISBN
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9780810992900
- ASIN
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0810992906
- Language
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English
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This is seriously one of the coolest books I've ever seen in my life. I've never been to Burning Man (wouldn't want to), but these pictures are AMAZING. It might have been worth enduring desert discomfort dust storms and camping just to see the 2996 "Uchronia" structure-- wow!
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B A pictorial (b&w) view of BM.
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I used to make fun of "Burners," but this book is actually really interesting, and a reminder to not prejudge that which I know little about.
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A. Leo Nash's Burning Man: Art in the Desert shares his account of years of participating as an artist and a photographer of the Burning Man art festival that has occurred for years in the Black Rock Desert outside Gerlach, NV. Ostensibly a coffee table book of black-and-white photos, the book gives a quick history of the festival and helps one appreciate the huge range of folks who participate and the many needs this seasonal set of communities meets.
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Can't wait to read this book- i've always wanted to go!
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The art work at Burning Man is usually unique and interesting, bizarre, and creative, a lot like the event itself. However I expected any collection of photographs from Burning Man to be extremely colorful and I was disappointed to find that this collection was in black and white, and not necessarily a hight quality of black and white either.
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Made me want to plan a 2025 trip to burning man!!
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