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Burning Man: Art in the Desert
by A. Leo Nash
from Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Its the art, stupid
  So much of the photogprahy of Burning Man is all glitz and surreal glamour, with a big measure of breast often thrown in. Yeah it's a big party with all sorts of wacky and interesting costumes and bright sights, but the real soul of the thing is the making of the art.
  Public art is always a gift to its community. The type of art that has grown out there, especially in its scale and ambition, often demands substantial gifts from the community to exist. It is a sublime and outrageous feedback loop, the... more info

• good photos deep in drivel
  I bought the book because I like black and white photos and because my son has attended Burning Man and worked for the corporation that creates the event in 2003. My intention is to give him the book; but, I decided to read the text before sending it off. The intro is long winded drivel (and at the time of this writing, the writer of the introduction has wasted valuable real estate on this product page with some self serving crap from his blog; who wants to wade down the page to get to the real reviews?)... more info

• Picstures Worth Crying For
  I just received this book as a gift. I immediatley sat down and slowly turned each page in amazement of what he has captured. I cried.

• I'm So Buying This Book
  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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