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''Chicks with Guns'' is a photo-book created by Lindsay McCrum. Lindsay McCrum is a fine arts photographer, and resides in both New York and California. McCrum earned an undergraduate degree from Yale University. McCrum then received her Masters of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. "Chicks with Guns" features portraits of American women from different backgrounds with their firearms. The book serves to explore the issues of self-image and gender roles by challenging assumptions of gun ownership. The women were all different, ranging from hunters, police officers, sportswomen, and competitive shooters. Some weapons are collectible, others are still active.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/chicks-with-guns-photographs-by-lindsay-mccrum )〕 During the photography, McCrum photographed 280 women, selecting only 81 after the final editing process. The oldest female participant was 85 years old. The youngest female participant was 8 years old. Chicks with Guns(source | edit ) though an offhand name, it came just as a working title that was popular with the models, and just seemed to stay with the book. Originally supposed to be a book twelve to twenty pictures of women and their firearms, it turned into a book of 80 pictures that had been narrowed from over 280(). Each of the women are posing with a firearm that in some manner has an importance to them, and their lives. The women pictured range from everyday house wives to police officers and even military women. This book showcases how everyday women, ranging in age from about 8 to 85, use a firearm in their lives(). They are shown as everyday women, some single, some married, or even widowed, and who just want to protect their children, or they may be protective service members that are in the military, or members of the police forces that protect our towns(). They are described individually by short paragraphs that tell a synopsis of the woman, and the firearm(s) she is modeling. Photographer Lindsay McCrum hoped through her photo documentary book that she could make the world more aware of the 15 to 20 million women in the United States that own, and use firearms. The book comes at a pivotal moment in history as the heat of the gun regulation debate gets turned up.This book was published in 2011 in the midst of the controversy of gun control. McCrum says that her intent was not to instigate the controversy, but to just to highlight the sheer power and beauty of what modern firearm owning women look like. "I found the women in the book to be an impressive group. Whether they were competitive shooters, hunters, collectors or had firearms for self-defense, they were focused, responsible and self assured. I was also struck by how accomplished and capable they all were."() . Lindsay McCrum(source | edit ) A fine art professor from New York, she earned an undergraduate degree from Yale University, and then later a masters degree in fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. Though she trained mainly in oil painting, she was well-versed in all aspects of the fine arts realm. She decided to work exclusively with photographic portraits in 2003, and has stayed with this line of artistic work since. Her work has been featured in galleries world-wide, including Galerie Schuster, Berlin(). McCrum stated that the idea for photo-book came after reading an article in ''The Economist'' which described the large size of the American gun industry. McCrum did not create "Chicks with Guns" for political statement amongst controversy. McCrum does not own a gun. ==Reception== The book was well-received selling out on Amazon on its first day. McCrum made it clear that she has no personal involvement with firearms.〔Crum, Maddie. "New Photography Book 'Chicks With Guns' Shows 'Unsettling' Images Of Women And Their Firearms." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 20 Oct. 2011. Web. 05 Nov. 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chicks with Guns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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