{"product_id":"9781936135127","title":"Authentic Americana: : The Art of Social Documentary","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJames Crnkovich holds a bachelor's degree from the University of\u003cbr\u003e Minnesota in Photo-journalism.  He has been a freelance photographer\u003cbr\u003e for over thirty years and has worked on the Iron Range Community\u003cbr\u003e Documentation Project and more recently on a project with his friend\u003cbr\u003e Bob Mielke to document the culture and people surrounding American\u003cbr\u003e nuclear weaponry.  He lives in Mesa, Arizona, with his wife and son.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blazing Sapphire Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141437473008,"sku":"9781936135127","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936135127_p0.jpg?v=1763660670","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936135127","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}