COMPASS OF THE EPHEMERAL: AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF BLACK ROCK CITY THROUGH THE LENS OF WILL ROGER
COMPASS OF THE EPHEMERAL: AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF BLACK ROCK CITY THROUGH THE LENS OF WILL ROGER
Will Roger
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Burning Man co-founder, artist, and environmentalist Will Roger presents fifteen years of his aerial and drone photography documenting Black Rock City, a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada to support the Burning Man event. Compass of the Ephemeral discusses the history, development, and significance of Black Rock City. It offers personal accounts from key figures instrumental in its inception and tells the origin story of what has become a global community.
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HARDBACK
ISBN: 9780977880652
8 x 10 inches | 203 x 254 mm
216 pages
$30 | €28 | £26
Publication date: June 18, 2019Will Roger is an artist, teacher, innovator, and environmentalist. Co-founder of Burning Man, the Black Rock Arts Foundation, and Burning Man Project, Roger has also served as chairman of the Sierra-Front Northwestern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council and as president of the Friends of the Black Rock-High Rock. His aerial photography has been exhibited at the Nevada Museum of Art, The Rotunda of the United States Capitol, Sotheby’s, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He lectures internationally on topics related to the environment and urban planning.
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REVIEWS
“Roger’s aerial photographs will keep you turning back. They show numbers – as in grains of sand, campers, cars and tents. They show the expanse of desert and sky. They show infinite beige and gradations of blue. One book defines the ephemeral, which, of course, can’t be defined. Which is why, some just have to have it.”
—Gwynned Vitello, Juxtapoz Magazine“Roger’s photos turn the Burning Man festival itself into a piece of art.”
—John Przybys, Las Vegas Review Journal“This book provides some insight and documentation into the development and growth of the temporary metropolis that is created and disappears each year on Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. It tells the story of growth, community engagement and artistic interaction. The reader will gain insight into the inner workings, challenges and decisions that made the growth possible.”
—James Gabriel Martin, Lonely Planet“Compass of the Ephemeral: Aerial Photography of Black Rock City through the Lens of Will Roger…showcases Burning Man’s history, pairing Roger’s images with those of other photographers, as well as an essay from Roger about the challenges of putting on an event of this size and magnitude in a barren desert.”
—Sarah Cascone, artnet News“The annual Burning Man event and its location in Black Rock City have become icons representing novel creativeness while promoting unrestrained expression…. Building a temporary city on a dry lake bed in the Nevadan dust was the challenge undertaken by founder Larry Harvey, builder Rod Garret and Will Rogers; this is their story told with passion, devotion, commitment and quite a bit of humor.”
—Aaron Row, Seattle Book Review