
BLAST
- Publisher
- Dashwood Books
- Year
- 2014
- Specifications
- Hardcover
56 pages
First edition
Edition of 1,000 copies
Featuring Ken Block
Professional rally car driver Ken Block, known for his enormously popular viral video series Gymkhana, took his driving skills to the remote southern Utah landscape between Capitol Reef and Goblin Valley to collaborate with photographer Jim Mangan on this project. In his foreword Mangan writes that he has explored and photographed the same remote southern Utah landscapes for five years, that the series continues those projects and is also the result of a collaboration with his friend Block, that their three days in the desert exceeded his wildest dreams, and that they stayed within the moment, far from any digital connectivity, hoping readers can escape for a moment as they turn the pages. The black-and-white photographs show towering rock formations, tyre tracks and rising dust and smoke. The book was launched to coincide with an exhibition at 205-A in New York's East Village, where Mangan and Block signed copies.