Once a year, at the close of summer, from the barren clay of the Nevada desert rises a temporary city.
Dust storms and extreme weather. Towering art installations on a vast canvas like no other.
This is Burning Man.
“Burning Man is visually impossible: there is no way the eye can make
sense of it all, nor can your memory of its sights untangle every
wonder and blaze. NK’s photos use an artist’s eye and a camera’s lens
to unpick the tight-knotted, intense visual experience. He has frozen
instants of Burning Man magic with a lavishness and faithfulness that
will have you tasting playa dust.”
Introducing Art of Burning Man, published by TASCHEN.
Art of Burning Man documents 16 years of incredible site-specific art
from the annual Burning Man festival. Created by writer and photographer
NK Guy, this exciting large-format book celebrates the work of hundreds
of artists who have created the most unmissable art event
on the planet.
Words and pictures, from 1998 through to 2014, by NK Guy.
With a foreword by temple designer David Best, and a futureword
by Burning Man’s Marian Goodell.
280 pages. Three fold-outs. French and German releases.
Brought to you by TASCHEN, the world’s pre-eminent publisher of art books.
Containing the most comprehensive coverage of the art of Burning Man ever,
this is the one we’ve all been waiting for!
Where to Buy
COMING LATE SUMMER 2015 TO A BOOKSHOP NEAR YOU
You can pre-order the book today, directly from taschen.com.
Later this summer it’ll be available from Taschen’s chain of physical
bookshops, and from good booksellers across the world.
Sign up here if you’d like to be notified when the book ships, and for
news such as the London launch event and an upcoming gallery show.
The Author
NK Guy is a Canadian writer and photographer based in London, England.
Along with Art of Burning Man from TASCHEN, which is a distillation
of the 65,000 photos he took at Burning Man from 1998 through to 2014,
he is the author of The Photographer’s Dictionary and The Lens. He also
created both photonotes.org for photographic
education, and burningcam.com.
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