James Crnkovich 
Authentic Americana: [EPUB ebook] 
The Art of Social Documentary

This is retrospective collection of the photography of photojournalist James Crnkovich. It is introduced by Bob Mielke and has commentaries by Lester Joos. The book contains fifty-five of James’s finest photographs in either black and white or color. The photographs document life in America under the following categories: Intimate Relationships, Studies, Rethinking Art, Geometry, Incongruous Places, the Politics of Irony, Gun Culture, Public Permissibility, Babe-acious Behavior, Public Relationships, Being Kids, and Vanishing America. Each image is accompanied by a contextualizing or reflective comment by the photographer.

James Crnkovich holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of
Minnesota in Photo-journalism.  He has been a freelance photographer
for over thirty years and has worked on the Iron Range Community
Documentation Project and more recently on a project with his friend
Bob Mielke to document the culture and people surrounding American
nuclear weaponry.  He lives in Mesa, Arizona, with his wife and son.