Desert to Dream: A Dozen Years of Burning Man Photography Hardcover - 2011

From the rear cover

"Soon after relocating from Baltimore to San Francisco in 1994, Barbara Traub made her first trip to Burning Man, and she and the rest of the world have never been the same. Over the next decade, Traub became one of the festival's most prominent photographers [and thus one of its unofficial publicists], having her shots from the desert transmitted back to civilization via Mondo 2000, Wired, and numerous other outlets." -- The Onion

"Desert to Dream is an unprecedented photographic record of a decade of Burning Man celebrations...Traub worked on assignment for Wired's cover story on Burning Man, was chief photographer for HardWired's book Burning Man that was published the following year, and shot for Wired News in 2001 [and 2006]." -- wired.com

"Traub's images capture the festival's spirit in lots of zany costumes and art installations celebrating off-kilter takes on contemporary culture and the participants' flights of fancy...Good visual fun and countercultural documentation, this is vibrant stuff in these grim days, a must for pop-culture collections." -- Mike Tribby, Booklist, American Library Association

"[Desert to Dream] is often downright beautiful...It's a lovely book, beautifully shot, surreal and random and appropriately odd." -- Mark Morford, SFGate.com

Media reviews

Citations

• Publishers Weekly, 07/18/2011, Page 0