Posted on 04/02/2014 9:31:39 AM PDT by VanShuyten
The brainchild of Canada-based photographer Peter Andrew and Creative Directors Simon Duffy and Derek Blais, The Point Blank project shoots handguns in close-up, portrait-style, and straight down the barrel. In doing so, the project creates large-scale, extremely detailed, and uncomfortably in-your-face frontal photographs. The images have a jarring beauty in the symmetry of design, the depth-of-field, and the level of detail—all the more powerful for their implicit violence. These subjects have, quite literally, the power to kill.
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In my experience the muzzle looks exceedingly larger than that.
In my experience the muzzle looks exceedingly larger than that.
I never saw the RPG that shot at me.
No hand. No power.
I’d be way more impressed if he’d show a picture of it with a bullet coming out.
I’ll never do that again.
The few times I’ve been shot at I didn’t see the shooter. The time I saw the muzzle was a 12ga held by security in a use of deadly force authorized area. He hadn’t received the all clear yet from downstairs that the nuclear codes were indeed secure. I saw a muzzle and a twitching trigger finger.
The other time was a really pretty North Korean spy but I don’t think that counts.
Like a frickin' sewer pipe!
There is generally only three reasons anyone, anywhere should ever see that: You are a criminal, you are an enemy, or you are being attacked.
“I look for trouble and I found it son
Straight down the barrel of a lawman’s gun
I tried to run but I don’t think I can
You make one move and you’re a dead man friend
Ain’t living long like this
Can’t live at all like this, can I baby?”
~ Waylon Jennings
Nope doesn’t look like those pictures at all.
Those are just pictures of guns nothing bad or scary at all.
Kind of like seeing a picture of a women and saying one is going to have sex with her.
Might be nice to look at but the act is impossible.
It is really a lot different looking down the muzzle of a real gun being held by a real person pointing it at you.
And a Lot worse if that person it trying to shoot and kill you.
This photographer has no clue.
The Uzi is the only one aimed at the camera. Everybody else is shooting high with no rear sight showing.
I was thoroughly unimpressed. In the hand of a bad person, guns are scary. In the hand of a good person, guns are soothing. As inanimate objects without a person to hold them, guns are simply works of high- or low-quality craftsmanship, neither "uncomfortable" nor "violent".
Anyone looking at the gun and getting that writer’s cliche vision of a giant barrel view, probably shouldn’t be living a lifestyle that gets guns pointed at them, it is the human who is holding the gun that is what matters, and depending on the situation has to be placated or overcome, or outsmarted.
Well the crowd cleared away and I began to pray
And the water fell on the floor
And I’m telling you, son, well it ain’t no fun
Staring straight down a forty-four
For true shock value, the photo should have a hand holding it.
**As a group, we’ve always been fascinated by pistols and what they represent; ultimate power and personal protection**
These images are artsy-fartsy.....nothing wrong with that.
Without a hand holding them.....I dunno...but by themselves more art/form/design than anything else.
The photographer could do the same thing with a nose.....or door to a house.
[Crimson Trace is the WTG]
In my experience the HUGE BLACK HOLE muzzles look exceedingly larger than 6 squad cars coz been ther done that.
It`ll traumatize you unless you already been shot a couple a times by 7.62`s; by then yer kinda used to it.
I missed the Browning Hi-Power.
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