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:''For the police officer, see NYPD subway sodomy scandal'' Richard Kern (born 1954 in North Carolina) is a New York underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films featuring underground personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch, David Wojnarowicz, Sonic Youth, Kembra Pfahler, Karen Finley and Henry Rollins in movies like ''The Right Side of My Brain'' and ''Fingered''. Like many of the musicians around him, Kern had a deep interest in the aesthetics of extreme sex, violence, and perversion and was one of the leading lights of the movement which Nick Zedd coined the Cinema of Transgression. ==Career== Kern's first dabbling in the arts was a series of self-produced underground magazines featured art, poetry, photography, and fiction by Kern and several friends. These hand-stapled and photocopied zines expressed the bleakness of New York City's East Village in the early 1980s. Kern's first zine was the bi-monthly "The Heroin Addict," which was later renamed to "The Valium Addict." About 12 issues of these two zines were produced, along with the occasional special issue. This phase of Kern's career lasted from late 1979 to around 1983. In 1985, Kern directed a video for the Sonic Youth song, "Death Valley '69", which led to more music video work, including videos for King Missile ("Detachable Penis") and Marilyn Manson ("Lunchbox"). Kern can also be credited with discovering Lung Leg, the star of his film ''You Killed Me First'' and the cover model for Sonic Youth's ''EVOL'' album (a still shot from the film). Along with other Cinema of Transgression filmmakers, he was a subject of Jack Sargeant's book ''Deathtripping''. In the 1990s, Kern, whose father was a North Carolina newspaper photographer and editor (citation ), turned almost exclusively to still photography. Although mainly known for his photographs of naked women, Kern frequently shoots celebrity portraits for international publications. He is represented as an artist by Jousse Entreprise gallery in Paris and Feature Inc. in NYC. In 2007, Kern's book ''Action'', edited by Dian Hanson, was released by Taschen, featuring more than 200 full-color photographs of young nude women. Accompanying the volume was Kern's DVD of models featured in the book, ''Extra Action''. Kern is a regular contributor to ''Vice'', ''Purple'', ''GQ'' and ''Playboy''. Since February 2007, Kern has directed ''Shot By Kern'' on VBS.tv, stills of which are published monthly in ''Vice''.〔(VBS.tv celebrates Mexico ) Quality Peoples. 18 July 2008〕 After meeting young photographer Petra Collins, Kern purportedly became her mentor.〔http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/05/19/going-back-to-school-with-teenage-photography-phenom-petra-collins/〕 Collins also serves as Kern's casting agent in Toronto, Canada. The UK band Manhattan Love Suicides took their name from one of Kern's short films.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Manhattan Love Suicides Band Overview )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Kern」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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