Joe's Junk Yard is a personal narrative, spanning fifty years and three generations that explores the achievement and subsequent demise of the American Dream. Kereszi's grandfather, a first-generation American and boxer turned-junkman, built an empire of used cars and scrap metal during the 1950's boom times, only to be slowly, but consistently, foiled by a series of events, some outside of his control. Kereszi's disquieting, loving photographs of the last decade of the business, along with 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. The family and the junkyard also represent larger themes that exist in our culture and economy today. 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 shows that loss is frequently found in the landscape of the junkyard, alongside a wealth of useful objects - every possible part for any mechanical function.