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Extra Action (and Extra Hardcore)
DVD: 60 minutes, color
Photographer Richard Kern likes real women: unpretentious, unadorned, and definitely undressed. Those who love Kern’s books know each is an invitation to join him as he follows them through their homes – or his New York apartment – from backyard to kitchen to bathroom to bedroom, capturing every sexy and embarrassing moment. Whenever Kern photographs one of these energetic, clothes-dropping exhibitionists, he brings out a video camera and asks them to “roll around and do something interesting for a few minutes” Extra Action documents 60 of these innocent amateur incidents set to an original musical score by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
Also includes: EXTRA HARDCORE
Previously unreleased short films from the HARDCORE years by Richard Kern including The King of Sex, Pierce, Sooter and Jinx, Catholic, Nazi, Goodbye 42nd Street
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Looker
Hardcover: 160 Pages
Publisher: Abrams
1st. edition (2008), hardback
In Looker (Abrams, July 2008, $40), through a series of carefully constructed vignettes, Kern’s models proceed through their daily private lives, seemingly unaware of the camera. Or are they wittingly playing into obvious cinematic intrigue? The balance of control present in each frame is a powerful and sensual statement.
Looker is thought-provoking in its gentle nature, pastoral tones, and caring reflection of private innocence –but it is also freshly and stunningly erotic, silently exuberant in its portrayal of intimacy and abandon.
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Digital Kern
Hardcover: 88 pages
Publisher: Charta (September 2007)
From the back cover:
Richard Kern is a well-known New York-based photographer exploring transgressive femininity. For more than twenty years, his snapshots have exposed young women struggling with an awareness of their own sexuality. When asked to describe his job, Kern replies, “I’m a voyeur working with exhibitionists.” Digital Kern is the artist third publication with Charta, but the first to exclusively contain digital photographs.
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Action
(Photos and Outtakes from 1997 - 2006)
Hardcover: 280 pages
Publisher:Taschen; Har/DVD edition (April 4,
2007)
Richard Kern likes real women: unpretentious,
unadorned, and definitely undressed. Those who love Kern know each
book is an invitation to join him in his privileged world where
natural young women share their most intimate moments. Richard has
never lost his boyish curiosity with girls and their secrets, so
instead of posing them in sterile sets he follows them through the
house—or rather his New York apartment—from backyard
to kitchen to bathroom to bedroom, capturing every sexy and embarrassing
moment. Action is his most revealing book yet. For 280
pages we careen through the life of Kern, accompanied by dozens
of energetic, fun-loving, clothes-dropping exhibitionists.
The
book includes an hour-long DVD of original Kern film with an exclusive
musical score by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
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Soft
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Universe (December 28, 2004)
Beyond traditional portraiture, Richard Kern's new works manifest a strong eroticism while incorporating the cinematic power of his earlier "Transgression" theme. His recent photographs with saturated color and stark, atmospheric lighting accentuate his pretty-but-not-perfect young nudes. Inspired, unique, and "real," his approach is as daring as ever in Soft. Still sticking with the "no airbrush" motto, Kern's unpretentious, honest photos draw the viewer in close.
Kern's longstanding relationship with the "No-wave" scene, which incorporated music, performance, feminist art, and the punk lifestyle, is reflected and distilled in these photographs.
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Hardcore
This exclusive DVD collection is jam packed with the gritty best from noted New York filmmaker Richard Kern. His sexually charged work has been alternately dismissed as "violent" and "offensive" by the mainstream press but embraced by the underground as the perverse standard.
Featuring punk rock diva, Lydia Lunch; funnyman Henry Rollins,; the exotic genitalia of Kimbra Pfahler and the churning music of Sonic Youth, Foetus and the Butthole Surfers; this urban jungle excursion is guarenteed to satisfy your dark craving for the unusual.
This is an "all region" DVD. It will play on any system.
THE HARDCORE COLLECTION (DVD), 3 hours
Includes: Death Valley 69, Right Side Of My Brain, You Killed Me First, The Bitches, The Sewing Circle, Fingered, Submit To Me, My Nightmare, Horoscope, X IS Y, Manhattan Love Suicides, Submit To Me Now and The Evil Cameraman.
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Model Release
190 Pages (over 200 photos), 1st. edition (2000), hardback
"Most people know Richard Kern for his photos of New York Girls - pasty, perverted and agressive creatures with time on their hands and tatts just about everywhere else. Now, Kern invites viewers to look beyond the fiction of photos- literally. His new book Model Release features models in "real places", not the imaginary world of the studio. Moving from the dominatrix to the schoolgirl, Kern's new models are young and imperfect beauties in pastel cotton panties, involved in such tasks as taking medicine, putting in eye drops, or just sitting around. This time, the models appear pleasantly surprised at the camera's intrusion, although Kern's 'spontaneous' style is very much a function of his vigilant direction."
-Christen Clifford, Black and White, October 2000
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New York Girls
(Taschen Books): Hardback, 9 1/2 x 12 inch, 208 page color photograph book. (1995).
Kern is interviewed by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon. Introductions by Richard Kern and Lydia Lunch. Hundreds of Kern sexy color photographs taken between 1983 and 1994. Banned in England.
"California girls are bouncy, blond and bronzed while New York Girls are - at least according to photographer Richard Kern - pale, perverted, and scary! Lots of leather, spiked heels, rope and piercings in these erotic, nightmarish visions that make Mapplethorpe look tame."
- BUZZ (May 1996)
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Noir
Softcover, 176 pages. Text by Geoff Nicholson, Sabina Spada Published in June 2002 by Charta Books, Milan
From the back cover:
Richard Kern is the quintessential New York photographer: he’s high speed and high contrast. And one of the most trangressive photographers working today. Known for his underground films and bold photographs of naked girls, Kern unself-consciously invents mischievous erotic stories and shoots them in simple domestic settings. As he once said, “if the model is an exhibitionist then I’m 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. Most of the 150 photographs in this book have never been published.
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XX Girls
(FICTION INC) Hardback, 8 x 12 inches, with 50 pages of black and white photographs. (1997)
Unique heavy yellow vinyl over board cover. 3000 copies published in Japan by an artist book press.
Out of print.
Limited quantities.
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XX Models
This is the color companion to Kern’s 1997 out of print black and white book, XXGirls.
XX Models contains 50 color photos from 1998 - 2001; most of them unpublished. Only 3000 copies of this book were made by Japanese artist book publisher Fiction Inc. This book was never distributed in the United States. Hardcover.
Published in Japan by Fiction Inc. September 2001
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