Burning Man : Un Livre de Photos Aériennes Va Retracer L’histoire du Légendaire Festival

Dans son livre de photographies aériennes inédites, Will Roger, le tout premier directeur des opérations du Burning Man retrace l’histoire de l’un des plus grands festivals du monde.

Will Roger fut le premier directeur des opérations du Burning Man. Ancien chimiste, artiste et, aujourd’hui, membre fondateur du conseil d’administration de la ville nomade de Black Rock City, il publie un livre retraçant en images aériennes l’histoire d’un festival rassemblant, au début des années 1990, seulement quelques milliers de fêtards. En constante évolution, cette grande fête désertique en plein Nevada a subi de larges transformations, à l’image « d’une toile vierge sur laquelle les gens peuvent venir et créer ». S’y réunissent désormais 70 000 âmes. > Read More @ TRAX Magazine

Black Rock City is designed to "sprout out of nothing", says Burning Man co-founder Will Roger

Burning Man co-founder Will Roger has spent the last 14 years capturing the festival in aerial photographs. As a book of his images is released, he spoke to Dezeen about how they created a pop-up city in the desert.

Compass of the Ephemeral: Aerial Photography of Black Rock City through the Lens of Will Roger, shows how the festival has grown from a small camp into a mini metropolis with a population of 70,000.

"If you look at the pictures in sequence from 2005 to 2018, the most significant thing that you see is that the city has grown in size," Roger told Dezeen. > Read More @ Dezeen

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A Man Who Has Attended Burning Man for Decades Captured the Event From His Airplane—See His Stunning Photos Here

Now, a new book from Will Roger, a Burning Man devotee since 1994, showcases this epic gathering on the playa in stunning aerial photographs, taken on site between 2005 and 2018.

It was Roger’s girlfriend, now his wife, Crimson Rose, who first brought him to Burning Man. “There were about 2,000 attendees that year,” Rogers told artnet News. (By comparison, Burning Man expects as many as 100,000 people to make the trip this year.)

It was the explosive growth of the counter-cultural event that led the couple to get more involved. In the late 1990s, Burning Man had grown to a point where it needed a more structured organizational system if it was going to survive. In 1997, Roger and Rose became part of Burning Man’s core team as cultural co-founders of Black Rock City LLC—it has since transitioned to a nonprofit—with Roger serving as the gathering’s first director of operations. > Read More @ Artnet

Exposed: Q&A with Burning Man Cultural Co-Founder and Aerial Photographer Will Roger

For the upcoming September 2019 issue of Relix, we spoke with Will Roger, a cultural co-founder of Burning Man who has been with the festival for nearly two decades. Roger recently release a book of aerial photography of Burning Man’s Black Rock City, Compass of the Ephemeral.

“The key words are ‘Burning Man community,’ as compared to what we call the ‘default culture’—the culture we live in outside the event, where people often feel separated from each other,” says Will Roger. “When at Burning Man, the ‘10 Principles,’—[along with] unconditional love and overpowering creativity—are some of the things that make Black Rock City different from the default culture and powerful as a life changer. The culture of Burning Man provides an opportunity to celebrate the world and humanity in an authentic expressed form.”

As a cultural co-founder of Burning Man, an annual weeklong communal gathering in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in late summer, Roger has been a part of the event for 25 years. He first discovered Burning Man through his life partner and inspiration, Crimson Rose, in 1994; together with several others, they are also co-founders of Black Rock City, LLC, the company that has produced the event for almost 20 years. > Read More @ Relix Magazine

2 Books Explore Evolution of Burning Man Festival

The Burning Man festival began in 1986 as an intimate, intensely personal gathering on a San Francisco beach. When the latest incarnation of the event begins Sunday in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, running through Sept. 2, tens of thousands of celebrants will gather to celebrate art, music and share in a sense of counterculture reminiscent of the ’60s but totally modern.

How Burning Man got from there to here — and the meaning of it all — is the focus of two recently published books.

“Compass of the Ephemeral: Aerial Photography of Black Rock City through the Lens of Will Roger” (Smallworks, $29.99) features photographs taken by Roger, a Burning Man founder, as well as archival images of festivals over the years. “Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World” by Neil Shister (Counterpoint, $26) is a telling of the Burning Man story, based in large part on interviews with the festival’s principals.

Roger’s photos turn the Burning Man festival itself into a piece of art. From the air, the half-circle collection of tents and recreational vehicles that make up Black Rock City take on the appearance of a geoglyph, one of those massive designs carved into the ground that can be seen only from the air. Other photos depict Burning Man art installations, poster and ticket designs through the years and other archival visuals, fleshed out with essays about Burning Man history and the festival experience. > Read More @ Las Vegas Review Journal

D’évolution du Burning Man, Entre Véhicules Mutants Et Vues au Drone

Plus de 30 ans plus tard, 70 000 personnes sont attendues pour l’événement, qui aura lieu du 25 août au 2 septembre cette année. Le photographe Will Roger, "cofondateur culturel" de Burning Man, a documenté l’évolution de ce lieu éphémère, hors du temps, de l’espace et de toute contrainte, dédié à "l’art, à la vie en communauté, à l’anticonsommation et à l’expression personnelle", indique sa maison d'édition Smallwork Press.

Son livre, intitulé Compass of the Ephemeral: Aerial Photography of Black Rock City through the Lens of Will Roger ("Boussole de l’éphémère : photographies aériennes de Black Rock City à travers l’objectif de Will Roger"), réunit des décennies d’images racontant l’événement. > Read More @ Cheese! Konboni

Juxtapoz Magazine Book Review: Compass of the Ephemeral

Some of us will never understand, but we’re all very curious. Compass of the Ephemeral: Aerial Photography of Black Rock City Through the Lens of Will Roger is a stunning historical travelogue in words and pictures that defines and depicts Black Rock City, as it was conceived, as well as how it continues to regenerate. While the gorgeous pictures present themselves admirably, the accompanying essays, all written with passion and precision, relate history, process, schematics and vision.

In his foreword, Will Roger describes navigating the bureaucratic loops to build “the beautiful serpentine city” in order to create what he simply calls “land art.” William Fox, Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, lends context in describing the 400 square miles of North America’s largest playa where meager blue light shifts can result in cognitive dissonance (like snow blindness!), a diminishment that “is useful if you’re seeking to un-anchor your normal sense of reality.” Tony Perez-Banuet says of the clock signage and building the city anew every year that the design was “such a damn good one that is simply prevailed.” In conclusion, Roger, a co-founder of Burning Man, recalls the aerial filming that began in 2005, crediting his pilots who helped him show an expansive perspective that truly captures the enduring power of the desert. > Read More @ Juxtapoz Magazine

Seattle Book Review: Compass of the Ephemeral

The annual Burning Man event and its location in Black Rock City have become icons representing novel creativeness while promoting unrestrained expression. Co-founder of this inspiring phenomenon, Will Rogers has assembled a colorful collection of aerial photographs recording the evolution of this summer site over the past thirteen years starting in 2005. Interspersed within this photographic assemblage are a series of essays describing the objectives of this meeting place, the geology and natural history of the site, some glimpses into the personalities of the founding characters, and ultimately meeting the challenges of fulfilling both the demands of the Department of Public Works and meeting the needs of the escalating number of camping participants. > Read More @ Seattle Book Review

Phace Magazine Book Review: Compass of the Ephemeral

Firstly I have to say like a lot of people I had heard of Burning Man, even though I never really gave it any attention. Well now! I have! This book has blown me away, the photographs are inspiring and do help in beginning to understand what Burning Man is all about. But wait! I'm really hoping to talk to Will Roger, about Burning Man & about this amazing book!

At this point I have to say a big thanks to Smallworks Press for publishing & getting it right! I've put a small introduction below.

I'm engrossed in my copy! > Read More @ Phace Magazine

Black Rock Desert, Photo by Contributing Photographer Vanessa Franking

Black Rock Desert, Photo by Contributing Photographer Vanessa Franking

The Evolution of Burning Man Captured from the Sky by Will Roger

One man who is more than acquainted with this incredible temporary city is Nevada artist and Burning Man cultural co-founder Will Roger. Over the past 14 years, he’s photographed the unique, ever-changing cityscape, capturing its transformation from humble roots to the now living, breathing metropolis that supports over 70,000 citizens today. > Read More @ Malestrom

Burning Man : Un Livre Va Répertorier Les Photos Aériennes de Will Roger

Un titre à rallonge pour un très beau livre. Compass of the Ephemeral : Aerial Photography of Black Rock City Through the Lens of Will Roger sortira le 18 juin prochain. Au travers des yeux du photographe Will Roger, l’objet sera composé de nombreuses photographies du festival mythique, prise depuis le ciel. L’artiste s’est depuis longtemps spécialisé dans les paysages du désert nord-américain. Ce n’est donc pas un hasard qu’il soit également le co-fondateur de ce rassemblement annuel d’environ 75.000 personnes qu’incarne le Burning Man. Pour les moins attentifs, l’évènement se déroule en effet dans le désert de Black Rock, dans le Nevada, depuis bientôt 30 ans. > Read More @ Tsuigi

Drone Photography, Temple Galaxia by Arthur Mamou-Mani

Drone Photography, Temple Galaxia by Arthur Mamou-Mani

Radical Inclusion and Tales from the Playa - Session 2

Join SAAM, five of the original founders of Burning Man, artists from No Spectators: the Art of Burning Man, and other Burners for a day of storytelling, short films, and discussions about the history of the event and the important role of art in its culture.  For more information, please visit the Cultural Tourism DC Calendar.

By clicking the image below, you will be cued to Will Roger’s Q&A with Megan Miller of Burning Man, as well as many other notable speakers.

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Burning Man Goes to Washington

Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson, “Ursa Major” (2016) (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson, “Ursa Major” (2016) (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

In an exhibition opening March 30, the Renwick Gallery has transported some of that Burning Man spirit to its more buttoned-down environs a stone’s throw from the White House. For the first time at the Renwick, an exhibition is spilling out of the museum’s doors onto the streets of downtown DC, with six large sculptures, including “Ursa Major,” taking up residence on sidewalks and medians through a partnership with the downtown-area Golden Triangle Business Improvement District.

Inside the museum, the Renwick will show 14 installations that were displayed at Burning Man or were commissioned from Burning Man artists, along with smaller artwork, handmade jewelry, costumes, photos, and memorabilia. No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man is so large and technically complex that the entire museum was closed to the public for almost a month, the first time the museum has closed for an extended period since reopening in 2015 after a two-year renovation. > Hyperallergic, Read More

No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man at the Renwick Gallery, installation view (photo by Ron Blunt)

No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man at the Renwick Gallery, installation view (photo by Ron Blunt)

City of Dust: The Evolution of Burning Man

If you start talking about an event that takes place about 100 miles northeast of Reno in the desert in late August, most people in our area, and beyond, will know immediately that you’re talking about Burning Man.  

Burning Man has become a cultural institution worthy of a museum exhibition. “City of Dust: The Evolution of Burning Man” runs from July 1 to January 7 and then in the spring of 2018 it will travel to the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. 

The exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno traces the history of Burning Man from its modest San Francisco origins to a yearly event that attracts tens of thousands of people to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.  

“The genesis of this exhibition really began about four years ago when our Center for Art and Environment, which is the research arm of the museum, acquired a major archive of materials related to the history of Burning Man,” said Ann Wolf,  John C. Deane Family Senior Curator and Deputy Director of the Nevada Museum of Art.  > Read More, Fred Wasser of KNPR  

 

The Founders of Burning Man

The Founders of Burning Man

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Rare Burning Man Photos, Journals, Artifacts Coming to Nevada Museum of Art

Walking into the Nevada Museum of Art's newest exhibition is like walking into a Burning Man time capsule. 

A pair of dusty boots. A 1986 sketch of the man. Several jars of ash and melted glass collected from torched effigies over the years. 

City of Dust, open to the public from July 1 through Jan. 7, 2018, is a more than 300-piece collection of Burning Man relics, just a sliver of the more than 6,000 items that the museum has collected for its Burning Man archive at the Center for Art and Environment in Reno. 

After the exhibition's debut in Reno, it will travel to the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in spring 2018.

The exhibition traces the more than three-decade evolution of an event that has morphed from a bohemian beach gathering in San Francisco in 1986 to the modern-day 68,000-person pop-up city in Northern Nevada's Black Rock Desert each year. 

Burning Man celebrated 30 years since its birth last year, and this year's event is on the horizon, planned for Aug. 27 to Sept. 4.  > Read More

Featured Image: Richard Misrach's photograph, Desert Croquet [#3 (Balls/Plane/Car], 1987 (Photo: Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Gift of Michael Light)

The Darkest Town in America

Five years ago, NASA launched a satellite that’s roughly the size of a minivan and that circles our planet 14 times a day. Its largest instrument collects information from across the electromagnetic spectrum over land, ice and ocean. Scientists analyzed its data and combined that with measurements taken on the ground to map our planet’s light pollution. Only a few small areas in the U.S. remain mostly untouched. > Read More