Shot by Kern - Tapa dura

Richard Kern ha una rubrica fissa sul video sito VBS della rivista americana Vice, dal titolo "Shot by Kern". La rubrica raccoglie le fotografie di Kern scattate in giro per il mondo. Negli ultimi sette anni, il fotografo ha viaggiato attraverso il Belgio, il Brasile, la Bulgaria, il Canada, la Repubblica Ceca, la Danimarca, la Francia, la Germania, l'Italia, il Messico, la Nuova Zelanda, la Polonia, la Russia, la Spagna, la Svezia, la Svizzera, il Regno Unito e gli Stati Uniti con una troupe di Vice. Questo volume presenta oltre 300 fotografie inedite. Per chi lo ha seguito sul web questo libro rappresenta un oggetto imperdibile, ma tutti i fan apprezzeranno la freschezza delle protagoniste neofite della macchina fotografica.

The photographer: Richard Kern was born in North Carolina in 1954 and has lived and worked in New York City since 1979. In the '80s he produced a series of short films that are now recognized as the central works of the movement known as the Cinema of Transgression. In the '90s he switched to still photography full time. Since 2000 he has primarily devoted himself to gallery shows and, beginning in 2005, to his VBS video series ""Shot By Kern."" The editor: Dian Hanson was born in Seattle in 1951. For 25 years she produced various men's magazines, including "Puritan," "Juggs" and "Leg Show," before becoming TASCHEN's sexy book editor in 2001. Her many books for TASCHEN include "The New Erotic Photography Vol. 2 and ""Robert Crumb: Sketchbooks 1982-2011." She lives in Los Angeles.