10 March 2008

'She's Got A Gun'


"In her new book, 'She's Got a Gun,' Georgia State University photography professor Nancy Floyd provides potent, often jarring images of housewives, lesbians, soldiers and mothers holding firearms with a kind of confidence and certainty that Freud would undeniably consider symbolic."

Read excerpts from the book by clicking here. The piece includes some of the back-story regarding why Ms. Floyd purchased her first firearm in 1991. Specifically, how buying a gun helped her understand her brother, a soldier who had died in VietNam, better. The site also features quotes from women Floyd has met who own guns, and a number of photos of these women who hail from all walks of life.

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