Verlag: Damiani September 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 8862082304 ISBN 13: 9788862082303
Anbieter: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: New. 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.
Verlag: Damiani September 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 8862082525 ISBN 13: 9788862082525
Anbieter: Burke's Book Store, Memphis, TN, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Tight, clean. Minor edgewear. Signed on title page. Signed By Author.