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Vendome Press
October 2011
On Sale: October 1, 2011
168 pages
ISBN: 0865652759
EAN: 9780865652750
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Photography
In Chicks with Guns, Lindsay McCrum has created a cultural
portrait of women gun owners in America through photographs
that are both beautiful and in a sense unexpected. The book
examines issues of self-image and gender through the visual
conventions of portraiture and fashion, but the guns are
presented here not as superimposed props but as the very
personal lifestyle accessories of the subjects portrayed.
And it defies stereotypes often associated with aspects of
the popular culture of both guns and women. Like the 15-20
million women gun owners in this country, the women we meet
in Chicks with Guns ( their portraits are accompanied by
their own words), reside in all regions of the country, come
from all levels of society, and participate seriously in
diverse shooting activities. The women here are sportswomen,
hunters, and competition shooters. Some use guns on their
jobs and some for self-defense. They may not all be
classically beautiful, but in these photographs they all
look beautiful, exuding honesty, confidence, poise, power
and pride. They are real women with real guns that play a
part in their lives. By focusing her camera respectfully on
this particular aspect of the American scene, gun-wielding
women and girls, Lindsay McCrum sheds new light on who we
are in America today.
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