[Leica] Armed *White* America?

[chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)]

Kyle,
I personally didn't find the book lacking in diversity.  The sample wasn't 
random and was biased towards those willing to self-report their gun 
ownership which is a controversial topic in the first place.  It is 
interesting that some may accused you of not representing certain groups 
when in fact it is the fear of representation that causes some not to 
participate.  This may be the single most important issue raised by your 
book.

Chris


At 08:19 AM 8/9/2007, you wrote:
>richard sed:
>
> >For those with the book though, or Kyle our man if you are not too
> >busy signing autographs, I note that the photo excerpts have one
> >African American and one woman that appears to be Asian descended.
> >Armed White America? What is the spread in the book like?
>
>The Newsweek photo essay is not a random sampling from the book. It was 
>based on two things 1) a list of images some group or person at Newsweek 
>thought were interesting, and 2) from that group, people that I could 
>convince to let Newsweek call them so that they could read their 
>quotations. The book does indeed contain non white people. it also 
>contains several immigrants and several non-heterosexuals, a bunch of 
>democrats, at least one Buddhist, a socialist, an anarchist and various 
>other people who defied my own stereotypes going into this.
>
>Possibly interesting to note: Of the subsets of "gun owners" one of the 
>most difficult to convince to be photographed was middle class African 
>Americans, many of whom expressed concern at participating in or 
>reinforcing a stereotype.
>
>This book, like most photography books, is made up entirely of the subset 
>of "people willing to be photographed" and suffers from that, indeed.
>
>kc
>
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