Books & Articles Main Profane Waste Main About photographer Dana Hoey Table of Contents True Stories Notes on the Collaboration: Gretchen Rubin and Dana Hoey Profane Waste text, without photographs Recommended Reading Buy This Book Visit the publisher, Gregory R. Miller & Co. Essay by Gretchen Rubin. Photographs by Dana Hoey Jewels buried in a grave, cigarettes smoked in $100 bills, champagne poured into a bathtub…what explains these seemingly perverse and irrational, yet also thrilling, acts? Rubin uses lucid analysis and explosive examples—by Rauschenberg, Jesus, Boesky, Thoreau, Goebbels—to illuminate the workings of an unacknowledged taboo; photographer Hoey presents a series of haunting images that are at once ultra-real and uncanny.
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