Sunday, August 08, 2004

Burning Man Art Show at Photo SF 2004

Burning Man is an annual festival held in the Nevada desert in the middle of summer. It’s a place for free expression and a test of survival where an entire creative social community is planned, built and dismantled afterwards. At the recent Photo SF 2004 show at Fort Mason in San Francisco, there was an exhibit of the Art of Burning Man organized by Barbara Traub. The images capture what this event is about more than words can. From A. Leo Nash’s haunting sepia-toned panorama of giant dominos stacked on top of one another to Ron Halbert’s digital image of Skeletons Car Shopping (see above), it’s avant-garde at its best.

For more information and other artists:

http://www.burningman.com
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~traubleaux
http://www.aleonash.ws/
http://www.manateelovesociety.com/gallery/SierraRon