A lot of the point mags are going out of business. They dropped the pay tremendously and it's all because of the internet. I used to go out once a month to LA and shoot for one week. I'd make a ton of money then come back to New York and do whatever I wanted.

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). Although mainly known for his photographs of naked women Kern frequently shoots celebrity portraits for international publications. " 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.

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Richard Kern (born 1954 in North Carolina) is a New York underground filmmaker writer and photographer. " 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.