Essay by Gretchen Rubin and Photographs by Dana Hoey
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/06/2006
Jewels buried in a grave, cigarettes smoked in $100 bills, champagne poured into a bathtub--these perverse, irrational acts are also somehow thrilling. Profane Waste explores the workings of an unacknowledged taboo: the taboo against willful dissipation. Dana Hoey, an acclaimed photographer appearing here in her first book, presents a series of 30 haunting images that are at once ultra-real and uncanny. Bestselling biographer and social critic Gretchen Rubin uses lucid analysis and explosive examples--the actions of Rauschenberg, Jesus, Ivan Boesky, Thoreau and Goebbels, among others--to demonstrate the power of the title concept. Together, Hoey's photographs and Rubin's provocative arguments create a shock of recognition: they lay bare intentions that stand outside the conventional goals of acquisition and accumulation.
- ISBN:
- 9780974364834
- 9780974364834
- Category:
- Economics
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 01-06-2006
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Gregory Miller & Company
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 266.7x215.9x14.99mm
- Weight:
- 0kg
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