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February 2013<br />
Kern goes continental<br />
Real girls in real settings around the world<br />
The internet video site VBS, launched by the ironic and ultra-cool American magazine<br />
Vice, features original content on a wide range of subjects dear to the hipster<br />
heart. One of the first, and still the most popular, ongoing series was “Shot by Kern,” a<br />
concept dreamed up by then editor-in-chief Jesse Pierson to roust photographer<br />
Richard Kern from his New York environs and have him shoot women Kern-style<br />
around the world. In the last seven years Kern has traveled to Belgium, Brazil,<br />
Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico,<br />
New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and<br />
the United States with a Vice video crew. Fans follow his adventures on Vice.com,<br />
from interviewing the real women who dream of being New York Girls, through styling<br />
and shooting. What they don’t see, what no one has ever seen, are the photos that<br />
result from these video sessions.<br />
Shot By Kern presents some 300 of these photographs for the first time. For those<br />
who’ve followed Kern’s adventures on VBS this is the book they’ve been asking for,<br />
but all fans will enjoy these fresh-scrubbed amateurs in their first time before the<br />
camera. Some are shy, some are brazen, but all have that quirky cuteness Kern seeks<br />
in his subjects.<br />
The book includes several photo series. As Richard travels the world he’s noticed cultural<br />
similarities between his models, and themes have emerged, from the universality<br />
of prescription drugs, to a love of technology, to lying in bed, and peering up skirts.<br />
And because Kern has always been fascinated by what women do behind the bathroom<br />
door, there is lots of intimate personal grooming.<br />
As with Kern’s last TASCHEN book, Action, Shot By Kern comes with an hour long<br />
video, shot and edited by Kern, with original video by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore,<br />
because, like Kern’s models, the modern world is always in motion.<br />
Adults only!<br />
Shot By Kern<br />
Dian Hanson<br />
Hardcover with DVD,<br />
8.8 x 11.8 in., 288 pp.<br />
978-3-8365-3569-4<br />
$ 39.99 / CAD 49.99<br />
,!7ID8D6-fdfgje!<br />
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