Guns Across America

Kyle Cassidy travelled 15,000 miles over two years photographing Americans in their homes and asking one question:

"Why do you own a gun?"

Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in their Homes is a 208 page hardback book by the photographer Kyle Cassidy and ranked in Amazon.com's 100 best books of 2007.

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Owen's picture

BLAM!

Thu, 27/03/2008 - 17:02 — Owen

As I was reading all of those peoples' testimonies as to "why they own guns", I have never wanted to jump through my computer screen  more in my life, so that I could go into those peoples' houses, slap them, say "NO!" and then take the guns away. "I need it for protection"; amazing, incredible. Are there any Australians who actually think like this - or is it a particularly American phenomenon?

Joshua's picture

Blam Blam!

Thu, 27/03/2008 - 20:23 — Joshua

The whole site makes it easy to book a trip to Canada and just skip right over that fruity bit under it eh? Of course I immediately assumed that the work was anit-arms but when I stepped away from my own opinion I wondered whether this artist was pro-gun? I think the photographer has done an excellent job in presenting the subject without any words. As someone who loves words it is a good lesson in that whole "picture worth a thousand words" thing.

 Guns are sexy but farkin forget these freaks!