RICHARD KERN (American photographer, b. 1954) - New York Girls

Richard Kern is an influential underground filmmaker, writer and photographer who first came to prominence as part of the cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s.  With erotic and experimental films like The Right Side of My Brain and Fingered featuring personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch, David Wojnarowicz, Sonic Youth, Kembra Pfahler, Karen Finley and Henry Rollins. Like many of the musicians around him, Kern had a deep interest in the aesthetics of extreme sex, violence and perversion and was involved in the Cinema of Transgression movement, a term coined by Nick Zedd.

Collectible Taschen Amuse-Gueule mini Printed in Germany, 1996