Nude in the desert at Burning Man 1998
 

Nude in the desert at Burning Man 1998
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This is art as myth, as ritual, as a kind of erotic property; a form of collective selfhood.
Larry Harvey, Burning Man 1998 opening statement
In the early 1980s, Mary Grauberger held annual bonfires on San Francisco’s Baker Beach to celebrate the summer solstice. When she stopped holding the fires, attendees Larry Harvey and Jerry James kept them going, with a twist — in 1986, the bonfire was an eight-foot-tall wooden man. After the man was ignited, a bystander ran forward and shook the burning man's hand. (The wind had shifted slightly, blowing the flames so she was unharmed.) Read more...

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