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Chicks With Guns
Hardcover, 167 pages, Harry N Abrams Inc, List Price: $45 | purchase
NPR Summary
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.
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This book is about:
- Shooters of firearms,
- Firearms owners,
- Pictorial works,
- Women,
- United States
NPR stories about Chicks With Guns
Author Interviews
'Chicks With Guns': A Picture Of Gun-Toting Women
November 26, 2011 More than 15 million women in the U.S. are gun owners, and 78 of them are in a new photo book. Photographer Lindsay McCrum says guns play a big part in some women's lives, but for very different reasons.
The Picture Show
Photo 'Shoot': Girls With Guns
October 13, 2011 Photographer Lindsay McCrum's new book sheds light on female gun owners in America.
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