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. Kern 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. Across 240 pages we careen through the life of Kern, accompanied by dozens of energetic, fun-loving, clothes-dropping exhibitionists. “Young women want to show the world they’re not like their man-hating women’s lib mothers,” a Kern model once told me, and these girls certainly get their point across. To further assist the young ladies in their rebellion, the book includes an hour-long DVD of an original Kern film with an exclusive musical score by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
But since we know that sometimes it can be a little risky to look at a book this revealing in public, this special edition comes with TASCHEN’s clever new Panic Cover feature to end public censure once and for all. Simply slip off the attractive but explicit cover, reverse, and redress—those ladies in the park will think you’re reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire!
Richard Prince, peintre, photographe et créateur de collage, est né en 1949 dans la région du Canal de Panama. Il est connu comme critique et spécialiste de la culture consumériste américaine. Il vit et travaille actuellement au nord de New York.
Né en 1954 à Roanoke Rapids, Caroline du Nord, Richard Kern vit et travaille à New York depuis 1979. Dans les années 80, il produit une série de court-métrages considérés aujourd'hui comme les oeuvres fondamentales du mouvement connu sous le nom de Cinema of Transgression. Depuis les années 90, Kern se dédie entièrement à la photographie. Très impliqué dans la scène musicale new-yorkaise, il réalise également les clips de Sonic Youth ou Marilyn Manson. Kern a publié neuf ouvrages et collabore à diverses publications internationales.
Dian Hanson a dirigé différents magazines masculins entre 1976 et 2001, dont Juggs, Outlaw Biker et Leg Show, avant de prendre la tête de la collection sexy de TASCHEN. Parmi ses ouvrages, citons la série consacrée aux «parties du corps», mais aussi The Art of Pin-up, Psychedelic Sex et Ren Hang.