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Kern Noir [Paperback]

Richard Kern (Photographer)
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Publication Date: Jan 1 2002 | Series: Naked?
Richard Kern is the quintessential New York photographer: he's high speed and high contrast. Son of a journalist, he was born in North Carolina, works around the world and lives in his beloved New York. Known for his underground films and bold photographs of naked girls, Kern unselfconsciously invents mischievous erotic stories and shoots them in simple domestic settings. As he once said, "if the model is an exhibitionist then I am a voyeur". In this book, Kern presents a collection of black and white photographs taken since the beginning of his career. In addition to his "girls", this volume also includes a few male nudes and landscapes.

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Born in 1954 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, the turning point of Richard Kern's life happened one afternoon in 1971, when he was picked up by a carload of hot, young, scantily-clad New York City glam girls while hitchiking after a day of skipping high school. He was captivated. The end result has been more than two decades of hard, sexually blunt work, starting with early projects like the Cinema of Transgression films made in collaboration with a crew of Lower East Side denizens Lydia Lunch, Nick Zedd, Sonic Youth, and Karen Finley. Kern's recent work has concentrated on the photography of women, and has appeared in Hustler and Barely Legal, as well as in the art monographs New York Girls and XX Girls.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Black, White, and Noir April 13 2003
By A Customer
This volume could also be called 'The Best of Richard Kern' as it presents a review of his work ranging from 1976 to 2001. Covering a wide range, we find bondage shots and girls with guns, as well as girls in the bedroom, bathroom and other scenarios, presenting an overview of Kern's interests and low-key fetish work.

Perhaps the strongest pictures are the close-up portrait shots, where the models reciprocate your gaze, as though daring you to enter their slightly dark and edgy world. In one shot, a small lizard crawls over a model's face, in the stark monochrome looking almost like a tribal tattoo. Most striking is the picture from 1993, simply titled 'Monica with Candle'. The model tilts her head backward and a lighted candle protrudes upright from her mouth. A very arresting picture the first time you see it (why that was not used on the cover is a mystery. Too provocative maybe?) Certainly a deeply erotic image.

Like all the best books of photography, this one starts well and gets better the more you look into it. A good one to keep on the bookshelf and delve into from time to time, and well worth buying.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Noir? Perhaps in that it is all black and white. . . Feb 16 2003
By J. Hancock
Richard Kern here has presented a fine collection of photographs. Though his style, at least in this presentation, seems to be mostly snap shots of ameture models; there are some nice shots none the less.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Light of Kern Nov 27 2002
By Mark Edgar
As a young man I have been searching for the perfect woman and theres no such thing. But Kern captures both a meaningful persona and porcelain like femininate in his photography. And this book delivers all expected from Kern and more, its better than New York Girls and thats hard to do. This book deseves to be on even the Queen of Englands coffe table but I for one will keep it hidden away as a unsering boy may hide his chocolete easter eggs from his anoying sister. (ABLOL)
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