ALMOST MADE
THIS PLACE MY OWN

Visions of America 1978–1979

Eamon Carr

“But, let me tell you, there’s so much more in Eamon Carr’s collection of photos. There seems a recognition of the strangeness of things: skeletal trees in the snow and, glimpsed briefly from windows, vistas like lunar landscapes. The angled rails of a car park are juxtaposed with a deserted, empty trapezoid swimming pool. Behind the giant soup tureens in a restaurant, the stainless-steel throws psychedelic shapes. Night time falls and a semi-circle of paper-vending machines gather, like a cabal of tubby robots … This, without a word of a lie, is a great trip.”

From the foreword by Wendy Erskine

“With greater clarity than anything I might have written, the camera showed me how I’d miscalculated. An unreal heart and smoke-smog eyes count for little. Cold, light-sensitive emulsion showed that, much as I loved America, and dazzling, intoxicating or noble the ideal, the childhood dream was unsustainable.”

From the introduction by Eamon Carr

EAMON CARR

Author: Eamon Carr
Foreword: Wendy Erskine
ISBN: 978-1-917445-02-3
Format: Hardback, 176 x 245mm, portrait, 150 Arctic Volume White
Extent: 88 pages
Edition: 500 copies
Weight: .5kg
Published: June 2026
Design: Niall McCormack