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Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes [Kindle Edition]

Kyle Cassidy (Author)
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As the 2004 Presidential Election was beginning to take shape, Kyle Cassidy took note of the important role the simple concept of gun ownership was playing. Hardly anyone he knew didn't have an opinion in the debate over owning guns. Why was a constitutionally protected right so heavily debated, and who exactly as these folks that own guns? "I began to wonder who these seventy or so million Americans were, how they lived and what was important to them. I set out to photographs as many gun owners as I could and ask them one question: "Why do you own a gun.""

Cassidy traveled over 20,000 miles, crisscrossing the country to meet with gun owners in their homes. Cassidy's photo essays create a powerful, thought provoking and sometimes startling view of gun ownership in the U.S. These "everyman" portraits, and the accompanying views of gun owners, fashion a riveting and provocative hardcover book.

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Kyle Cassidy is a photographer living in Philadelphia.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 4695 KB
  • Print Length: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Krause Publications (12 Jun 2007)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B0056JSLK6
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #455,097 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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Yank Gun Porn? 30 Oct 2007
Format:Hardcover
This book does the job described by the author.It paints an interesting portrait.This book should shock you. Holding a mirror to gun-obessessed America should serve to highlight that mostly-indicriminate gun possession within a society is a recipe for disaster.Interestingly the popular reason cited in support of gun-ownership is that it is a 'god-given right'.I'm still bemused that a right supposedly given by an imaginary friend described as 'god' in support of possession of a projectile weapon designed to kill doesn't immediately qualify as symptom belonging to an affective disorder.We giggled at the obsurdity of (mostly obese?) and slightly paranoid armed Americans throughout this book in the store when we first noticed the enticing cover.It shocks, saddens, bemuses and provokes debate.Guns for all...
Is it social irresponsibility? Is it sensible domestic safety strategy?Should we laugh?It is certainly interesting...
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By Robin Benson TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover
Kyle Cassidy got the inspiration for this fascinating book while at his vet's looking through a copy of `Hunting Dogs: a Photographic Tribute'. If Krause could publish that then they might publish his book, which was just an idea at that stage. I was very pleasantly surprised when I first flipped through it because the publishers are known for mostly doing books for collectors and hobbyists which don't have the same design criteria as art photo titles. The book looks the part with one large photo on each right-hand page, printed with 175 screen on matt art paper.

As other reviewers have noted Cassidy pushes no point-of-view with his photos and this, I think, is one of the strengths of the book. Here are average folk in their homes with their pets, books, furniture and guns. I doubt that the photos would have quite the same impact if they were taken outdoors, while the owners were hunting or at a target range because the interiors reflect the personalities of each person and this contributes another strength: these photos are a snapshot of how many Americans lived at the start of a new century.

The photos are taken in a no-nonsense style: no fancy angles, soft-focus or other techniques because it's just not necessary. The people and their homes have enough visual pull to grab you as the pages are turned and a nice extra, on each page facing the photo, are their views on firearms. Another neat idea, in so many of the photos, was to include family pets and Cassidy seems to have captured them as relaxed as their owners.

With 198 impressive colour photos I thought Armed America worked as a perfect photo book and it could turn out to be a classic as the years go by.
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Format:Hardcover
Armed America is a remarkable book full of brilliant pictures, but it's not just the photos that make it so. Author/Photographer Kyle Cassidy has managed to put a human face on the numbers of American gun owners in this extraordinary book, and to his credit he has not slanted the work toward either side of the volatile issue of private gun ownership in the USA.

The photos exhibit Cassidy's skill in capturing the character of his subjects, and his decision to restrict the text to the names of the individuals, the makes and models of the firearms in the photos--and most importantly the reason why these people own those firearms--has turned what could have been merely an interesting coffee table book into a significant piece of work that will take the reader a long way toward understanding this puzzling facet of the American psyche.

Neither Pro, nor Anti Gun, "Armed America" is an outstanding piece of work that lets the reader decide for themselves, and as such this book stands as a shining example of what happens when good journalism meets true art.
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