Richard Kern
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Richard Kern 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 such as "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.
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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