“America is the Fourth of July and Labor Day, picnics, parades and county fairs. It is skyscrapers and small towns. It is baseball and jazz, poetry and rodeos, pancakes, hot dogs and popcorn. It is summer storms and lightning bugs, cool autumns and winter blizzards. It is every kind of landscape, from mountains to deserts, farms to coastlines, plains to broad rivers. It inspires hopes, nurtures dreams and never ceases to surprise.
 
…We signal to one another constantly, deliberately and unconsciously. My photographs are simply another part of the continual ritual of communication in which we all participate.”
 
 
 
From Tom Finke's afterword to America: Footprints in Time 1982–2012.
 
Published by Sokyusha in 2015, this book gathers images of everyday scenes within American social rituals. From picnics to public events in places such as San Francisco and Arizona, Finke creates a narrative both detached and intimate. Within the comfort of crowds, his images celebrate what makes people alike yet profoundly individual.