"The associative notions of guns/camera/trigger links all media representation to lethal weapons. America's Finest, and interactive M16 rifle, addresses these issues. Action is directly instigated through the trigger itself, which, when pulled, places the viewer/participant within the gun site (this time their entire body holding the gun). Thy see themselves fade under horrible examples in which the M16 was used, and if they wait, ghosts of the cycling images dissolve in the present." pg. 755
Lynn Hershman comments on her work, America's Finest
Wilson, Stephen. Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology (Leonardo Books). The MIT Press, 2003.
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The fact that "shoot" implies both the killing of others with a gun and the capturing of an image through a lens is quite perceptive (no pun intended). Hershman's genius comparision between the predatory nature of a weapon and the almost equally penetrating power of the camera provides new meanings to documentary photography, and relates the object of gaze and the tool under which it is captured on a physical level.
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