Interior America

Chauncey Hare
Interior America

Photographs: Chauncey Hare

Text: Chauncey Hare

Publisher: Aperture

174 pages

Pictures: 150

Year: 1978

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 240 x 295 mm. First edition, 1978. Black & white photographs. Text in english. Spine slightly discolorated. Minor edgewear. Otherwise in fine condition. With owner ex libris. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol.2, p.23. Collectible.

Chauncey Hare captures the terrifying, claustrophobic ordinariness of the real America that lives out its bewildered days behind the slap-happy myth of progress, the facade of affluence. It is the America where cracks in the plaster, dishes in the sink, stains on the linoleum are the hieroglyphics of despair. His photographs are trial wasteland of modern life like a gathering death wish. After reading the personal statement Hare has attached to this book, I can see that these are not simply photographs of America's interior, but of his own inner being. He has lived he estrangement and desperation of these images.

Theodore Roszak, author, Where the Wasteland Ends