“火人节”一共为期8天，每年8月底至9月初在美国内华达州黑石沙漠（Black Rock Desert）举行。每年9月的**个星期一是美国的劳动节，也是火人节的开始。每年这个时间，来自世界各地的人涌入这里，所有的参与者被称作Burner。在沙漠中**售卖的是冰和咖啡，除此之外没有任何商业行为，所有生活用品必须自带。“Burner”们在节日中会穿着奇装异服甚至全裸，大家会围着观看一个10几米高的木制男雕像燃烧，以此庆祝节日。

在这个配有新画面的更新版中，作家兼摄影师NK Guy展示了16年来的火人艺术。他拍摄的令人眼花缭乱的画面记录了这些参与式的、集体的、本质上短暂的沙漠中装置艺术和即兴演出，它们的存在没有明确的目的，仅仅是因为有人想要表达些什么。

One hundred miles from the gambling town of Reno, in the wilderness of northern Nevada, lies a vast, hostile plain known as the Black Rock Desert. The region has been an empty and windswept dry lake bed for most of the past 10,000 years. Except, that is, for one brief week at the end of each summer, when a temporary city rises out of the barren clay.This is the surreal and amazing site of Burning Man. Baked by the sun, and blinded by dust, the gathering acquires different meanings for different people: temporary community, spiritual adventure, performance stage, desert rave, social experiment. It's also the incubator of some of the most remarkable site-specific outdoor art ever made: a mechanized fire-breathing octopus, a towering wooden temple 15 meters tall, and the eponymous Man himself-a skeletal sculpture set ablaze at the event's conclusion.In this updated edition with fresh images, writer and photographer NK Guy presents 16 years of Burning Man art. His dazzling images record these participatory, collective, intrinsically ephemeral installations and happenings in the desert, which exist for no clearer purpose than because someone wanted to express something. The result is testimony to a realm far beyond the ego, commerce, and power play of mainstream cultural output: it is one of the most pure, uninhibited, expressive centers of our time.With a foreword by temple designer and artist David Best and a futureword by Founding Board Member Marian Goodell.