Richard Kern
Richard Kern (* 1954 in Roanoke Rapids , North Carolina ) is an American Underground - director and photographer from New York .
life and work
Richard Kern graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1977 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts .
In the 1980s, it first achieved greater notoriety as part of the thriving underground culture of New York's East Village . Kern shot various films with experimental and erotic content (e.g. The Right Side of My Brain and Fingered ), in which numerous big names in the scene and musicians such as Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins participated. This is how the first music video of Sonic Youth Death Valley '69 came about in the mid-1980s , which was later followed by other works for bands such as King Missile and Marilyn Manson . As with many artists in the vicinity of Kern, his work revolves around the topics of sex, violence and BDSM . Kern was one of the main actors in the so-called Cinema of Transgression .
In the 1990s, Kern concentrated almost exclusively on photography . He became well known with his photo book New York Girls , which puts photo models in connection with bondage and sexual fetishism .
Filmography
- 1985: You Killed Me First
- 1985: Woman at the Wheel
- 1985: Thrust in Me
- 1985: Submit to Me
- 1985: Stray Dogs
- 1985: The Right Side of My Brain
- 1985: Manhattan Love Suicides
- 1985: I Hate You Now
- 1986: King of Sex
- 1986: Goodbye 42nd Street
- 1986: Fingered
- 1987: Submit to Me Now
- 1990: X Is Y
- 1990: Pierce
- 1990: Money Love
- 1990: The Evil Cameraman
- 1991: Tumble
- 1991: Nazi
- 1991: Horoscope
- 1992: Sewing Circle
- 1992: The Bitches
- 1993: My Nightmare
- 2004: Corporate Ghost
Music videos
- 1986: Death Valley '69 by Sonic Youth (with Judith Barry )
- 1993: Detachable Penis from King Missile
- 1993: Room 429 by Cop Shoot Cop
- 1993: Divine Hammer from The Breeders (with Kim Gordon )
- 1993: Body Bomb by Unsane
- 1994: Love Is from King Missile
- 1994: Lunchbox by Marilyn Manson
- 2012: Wiped Out from Off!
- 2013: Lover's Cave by Is Tropical
Illustrated books
- 1995: New York Girls
- 1997: xxgirls
- 2000: Model Release
- 2001: xxmodels
- 2002: Kern Noir
- 2004: Soft
- 2007: Action
- 2007: Digital Kern
- 2008: Looker
- 2013: Shot by Kern
literature
- –MAERZ– (Axel Estein): "Out of the synthetic resin block: Richard Kern - The evil cameraman." In: Howl, No. 12, April 1992, Munich, pp. 26-28
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Kern in the catalog of the German National Library
- Richard Kern in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of Richard Kern
- The films of Richard Kern (film review)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kern, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American underground director and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roanoke Rapids , North Carolina |