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Richard Kern is an American filmmaker, photographer, and artist. He was born in 1954 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. He is best known for his work in the underground film scene of New York City in the 1980s and 1990s. He has directed several short films, music videos, and feature films, and has published several books of photography. Kern attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied painting and photography. After graduating in 1976, he moved to New York City and began working as a freelance photographer. He soon became involved in the underground film scene, and in 1983 he released his first short film, The Bitches. Kern has since directed several short films, music videos, and feature films, including You Killed Me First (1985), The Right Side of My Brain (1985), and Fingered (1986). He has also published several books of photography, including Richard Kern: Extreme Photography (2003) and Richard Kern: New York Girls (2005). Kern has been married to artist and filmmaker Lydia Lunch since 1991. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Birthplace Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States
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His wife is Martynka Wawrzyniak (2007–2015)

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2011

He was interviewed in 2011, as part of the documentary The Advocate for Fagdom by Angélique Bosio about queercore filmmaker Bruce La Bruce,

2007

His book Action, edited by Dian Hanson, was released in 2007 by Taschen, featuring more than 200 full-color photographs of young nude women. Accompanying the volume was Extra Action, Kern's DVD of models featured in the book.

Since February 2007, Kern has directed Shot By Kern on VBS.tv, stills of which are published monthly in Vice.

Kern was married to artist Martynka Wawrzyniak from 2007 to 2015.

1990

Kern, whose father was a North Carolina newspaper photographer and editor, turned in the 1990s almost exclusively to still photography. Although mainly known in recent years for his photographs of naked women, he frequently shoots celebrity portraits for international publications.

1985

In 1985, he directed a video for the Sonic Youth song "Death Valley '69"; this led to more music video work, including videos for King Missile ("Detachable Penis") and Marilyn Manson ("Lunchbox").

1980

Kern's first dabbling in the arts was a series of self-produced magazines that featured art, poetry, photography and fiction by himself 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 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.

1954

Richard Kern (born 1954) is an American underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to prominence as part of the cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films like The Right Side of My Brain and Fingered, which featured personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch, David Wojnarowicz, Sonic Youth, Kembra Pfahler, Karen Finley and Henry Rollins. Like many of the musicians around him, Kern had a deep interest in the aesthetics of extreme sex, violence and perversion and was involved in the Cinema of Transgression movement, a term coined by Nick Zedd.

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