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Pictures from a Lucerne resident from the Burning Man Festival in Nevada: sand, dust, fire and bright art
Lucerne photographer Emanuel Ammon captures his trip to the Burning Man Festival 2017 in a great illustrated book.
Burning Man Festival 2017 – Comrades of Art.
The Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert – everyone in Europe has probably heard of it, but not too many will have been there. One person who experienced the festival and the entire myth that surrounds this celebration of art in the heat of the desert is the Lucerne photographer Emanuel Ammon. Ammon undertook his adventure trip to the Burning Man Festival in 2017, and has now published a beautiful illustrated book with his own text.
We learn that he had to pay a hefty $1,000 for a ticket to the famous festival, which started as a modest ritual in San Francisco in 1986 and moved to the “Black Rock Desert” in Nevada in 1990 after the burning of “Burning Man” in San Francisco “ took place » had been prohibited.
The festival in the desert as an oasis of freedom
In Nevada, the simple beach bonfire developed into a gigantic festival that lasts nine thousand days every September. Participants create art and care inclusion and unconditional giving. The festival is intended to be an oasis of creativity and freedom. Emanuel Ammon talks about the fact that this also involves hours of queuing in front of the desert city and later the laborious cleaning of the camper, as well as the rampant poverty in San Francisco.
A celebration of art, creativity and community in the middle of the Nevada desert – the Burning Man Festival is a living myth.
Emanuel Ammon: «Fire and dust. Burning Man Festival»
100 pages/21×15 cm/CHF 39.00; ISBN: 978-3-906105-27-7.
