Richard Kern is hoogleraar Frans en directeur van het Berkeley Language Center aan de Universiteit van Californië, Berkeley, VS. Zijn eerdere publicaties omvatten Language, Literacy, and Technology (Cambridge University Press, 2015) en Literacy and Language Teaching (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Focusing on the intersection of technology and language, this book examines the impact of digital advancements on communication and literacy. It delves into how technological tools shape our language use, alter literacy practices, and influence societal interactions. Through various perspectives, it highlights the evolving relationship between language and technology, making it essential for understanding contemporary communication dynamics.
Richard Kern likes real 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. Richard 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. For 280 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 the point across. To further assist the young ladies in their rebellion, the book includes an hour-long DVD of original Kern film with an exclusive musical score by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
Illustrated with over 180 photographs, this book traces the career of New York's most infamous photographer/filmmaker, Richard Kern. John Waters said of one of Kern's notorious scum-bag Super-8 'Finger is the ultimate date movie for psychos. It's the best hillbilly-punk-art-porno movie in the world and I always show it to people very late at night to make them happy'.
One of the first, and still the most popular series on the internet video site VBS was "Shot by Kern," a concept dreamed up by then editor-in-chief Jesse Pierson to roust photographer Richard Kern from his New York environs and have him shoot women Kern-style around the world. This title presents some 300 of these photographs.
A former heroin addict himself, Kern?s photos offer the opportunity to stare into the far more insidious face of contemporary prescription drug addiction. On the genesis of the project, Kern has said, ?A woman working for me a few years ago told me that she was very jittery because she had taken too much Adderall. When I asked her about taking meds, she said that all of her friends took them too.? The resulting images?young women in their underwear holding up their pill bottles (Valium and Klonopin, but also Relpax, a treatment for migraines) and birth control packets against a background of their own cozily haphazard bathrooms and bedrooms?fall somewhere between scenes of confession and screen grabs from a YouTube tutorial.
