Junk Architecture

Junk ArchitectureWhen he was 21, Lyons father passed on to him a 1953 Oldsmobile. He discovered the ecstasy of speeding along Georgia highways during the civil rights movement, with red dirt fields of peanuts and cotton flying by. In the excitement of driving, he realized his own mortality. Lyons Junk: America in Ruins is a book of pictures of 86 American cars, mostly from the 1950s and 1960s, made in the junkyards of the western United States. The pictures were taken

but also undeniable objectification and exploitation

TIME magazine selected it as one of the 100 most influential photographs: “By digging so deeply into his assignment

they now evoke a terrible beauty and sadness

In the dim glow of an underground nightclub on Cable Street

m on West Chang An Avenue

Épinay-sur-Seine

Sammy Davis Jnr

she captured the dancers on stage and off

Parr captures a particularly British form of leisure—undaunted

in which the fantastic and the mundane are intimately entwined

and the immense losses of a disastrous war

this image embodies the project’s core themes: transformation