Richard kern
(from the wiki)
Richard Kern (born 1954 in North Carolina) is a New York underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films featuring underground personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch, David Wojnarowicz, Sonic Youth, Kembra Pfahler, and Henry Rollins in movies like "The Right Side of My Brain" and "Fingered." 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 Nick Zedd's coined Cinema of Transgression.
Kern is now a photographer featured in every VICE magazine. a section called "shot by kern" regularly appears in both video and still form on VICE magazine's website.
In searching for the right color palette to add just the right amount of flash and saturation to my photographs i've been looking at photographers like Kern and McGinley its important for me to try and find the best of the photographers that ride the line between fine art and commercial work and the artists that exist in both worlds. while Kern is more known for his erotic and nude works i feel that he is recognized by the same realms as McGinley, so much so as he is featured in one of the best known fashion and youth targeted culture magazines. I've also been looking for clues as to how to more appropriately light the photographs and am leaning toward the soft whites and golden magic hour colors. maybe shooting with a flash bouncing off of a gold reflector would be most appropriate.
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