Jennifer Raiser is the founder and editor of SFWire.com, and she has written for The San Francisco Chronicle and The Huffington Post. She is also the Treasurer of the Burning Man Project.Sidney Erthal has had his camera poised for the past seven Burns which is how Burning Man aficionados carbon-date their experience with the festival. Born and educated in Brazil, he has lived in the San Francisco Bay area for the past decade.Scott London is a longtime photographer of Burning Man, and his photos have appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, GQ, and National Geographic Traveler. He is the former host of NPR's Insight and Outlook.Larry Harvey is the Founder of Burning Man and Burning Man Project. He currently serves as head of the Burning Man Project's Philosophical Center, conceives the theme of the Burning Man event each year, and determines the design of the Man and its base. He is passionate about books and art, and resides in San Francisco.Will Chase is a writer best known for his role as publisher of Burning Man's online newsletter, Jackrabbit Speaks, and as editor of The Burning Blog. He is also a long-time art curator and arts consultant through his company, Will Chase Arts.Leo Villareal is an artist who works with light and scale. He has created numerous iconic works including Multiverse for the underground walkway of Washington's National Gallery of Art, Hive for New York's Bleecker Street subway station, and The Bay Lights, spanning the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Oakland.
"Burning Man: Art on Fire provides a fine authorized collection of
some of the amazing art work of the Burning Man annual gathering,
collecting the sculptures, art installations, and stories from
attendee artists and presenting a gallery of some 200 images
representing the best of Burning Man creations. From photos to an
aerial-view poster, this pairs full-page color photos with
discussions of how each piece was created within the Burning Man
festival. From silicon rays that use technology and art to the
outer limits of self-expression to the creation of Burning Man
temples, this is a fantastic art book packed with full-page color
images all paired with discussions and packed into an oversized
coffee-table creation accessible to art collections and individual
fans of Burning Man culture alike." " The Midwest Book Review,
California Bookwatch: November 2014
"Burners wait all year to travel to a remote desert where they
create stupefying art and build amazing sculpture - then burn it
all down a week later. Fortunately, someone took some pictures!" -
Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman)
"The desert festival known as Burning Man has evolved far beyond
its 1990 origin as a simple party on a San Francisco beach centered
on the immolation of a humanoid wooden sculpture. Now taking place
on a dry lake bed in Nevada, the event is a giant noncommercial
hedonist blowout for thousands of people revolving around a
climactic incineration. This volume is an opulent photographic
exploration of the artistic side of the celebration ranging from
static sculpture to fire-breathing mutant cars. Short prefatory
essays define Burning Man's history and ethos and give brief
glimpses of the design and construction of the varied pieces on the
unbelievably difficult terrain of the desert. The sculptures are as
various as the minds of the creators and include free-form
blobitecture, steampunk vehicles shooting flame, giant comic-book
pirate ships, filigree steel female nudes, 40-ton granite boulders
suspended overhead, dragon-shaped aluminum can smelters, vast wood
and canvas temples, and a multiplicity of personal expressions
designed to enhance the experience of the attendees. VERDICT The
lush photography and fine printing will appeal to art and nonart
audiences and the breezy text is aimed at inclusion rather than
erudition. Whether you like the art pieces is a matter of taste,
but this book is a great way to experience a bit of the thrill." -
Library Journal
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