Joe’s Junk Yard

Joe’s Junk Yard

Lisa Kereszi • Damiani

ISBN-10: 8862082304 · ISBN-13: 978‑8862082303 · 2012 · First Edition

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Dimensions: 11.7 × 9.8 × 0.7 in

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Spanning 50 years and three generations, Joe’s Junk Yard is a personal narrative that explores the achievement and subsequent demise of the American dream. Lisa Kereszi’s grandfather was a first-generation American and boxer-turned junkman, who built an empire of used cars and scrap metal in Chester, Pennsylvania, during the 1950s boom era, which was gradually eroded by a series of misfortunes. Kereszi’s disquieting, tender photographs of the last decade of the junkyard, accompanied by business ephemera and family scrapbook photographs, tell the story of this family and its struggles with a changing economy, urban decline, family feuds, tragic and untimely deaths and the challenges of an independent business. In this photographic series, begun before she pursued formal studies in photography and continued during her years at Bard College and at Yale University, Kereszi repeatedly locates themes and motifs of impermanence and loss in the landscape of the junkyard.

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