Richard Kern

Richard Kern (born 1954) is a New York underground filmmaker and photographer. He first came to prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic films featuring underground rock personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins in movies like "The Right Side of My Brain" and "Fingered". Like many of the musicians around Kern, he had a deep interest in the extremes of sex, violence, and perversion and was one of the leading lights of the so-called Cinema of Transgression.

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1954 - Underground - East Village - New York City - 1980s - Erotic films - Lydia Lunch - Henry Rollins - Cinema of Transgression

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Kern can also be credited with discovering Lung Leg, the star of his film You Killed Me First and the model for Sonic Youth's EVOL album cover.

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Lung Leg - You Killed Me First - Sonic Youth - EVOL

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In the 1990s, Kern turned almost exclusively to still photography of glamour, bondage and fetish models in books such as "New York Girls", still reflecting his unique sensibility.

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Glamour - Bondage - Fetish - Model

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