LOOKER PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD KERN HC (MR)

by Richard Kern & Geoff Nicholson
Richard Kern is a post-modernist punk photographer who has worked in New York City rock music and "No Wave" art circles since the 1970s. In Looker, through a series of carefully constructed vignettes, Kern's models proceed through their daily private lives, seemingly unaware of the camera. Or are they wittingly playing into the obvious cinematic intrigue? Looker is thought-provoking in its gentle nature, pastoral tones, and caring reflection of private innocence - but it is also freshly and stunningly erotic, silently exuberant in its portrayal of intimacy and abandon.