Art of Burning man

If you can’t physically make it to the notoriously wild Burning Man festival, living vicariously through this volume is the next best option. Chronicling the past 16 years of Burning Man's history, writer and photographer NK Guy provides a vibrant visual feast of the Black Rock Desert, Nevada-based event, where one week out of the year the barren and hostile landscape radically transforms into an oasis. Equal parts art, culture, and music, Burning Man is one of the purest and most expressive festivals in American history, and Guy manages to strikingly capture that essence.” Interview magazine, New York; “Photographer NK Guy has been capturing the artworks built for Burning Man on camera for over a decade. In Art of Burning Man, he pays poetic homage to the way the sun rises over the event's central sculpture in the mornings, and the glow of LED lights and lasers after sunset. He emphasizes the structures' ability to bring people together from all walks of life - accomplishing, according to Guy, the feelings of connection that art should achieve, but so often fails to inside of a museum. A celebration of Burning Man, but also an explanation for those unacquainted, the book explains the origin of the temple-like artworks that crop up on the playa each year.” The Huffington Post, New York;