Richard Kern - Action - 2011

Action is a collection of works by American photographer and filmmaker Richard Kahn (1954-).

Based in New York since the late 1970s, Kahn is known as a central figure in the 1980s underground film movement "Cinema of Transgression," creating radical, low-budget films dealing with violence, sex, and noise, while intersecting with figures like Nick Zedd, Lydia Lunch, and Sonic Youth.

Since the 1990s, he has shifted his focus to photography, working for magazines such as Vice and Purple, and continuing to capture New York's youth culture and intimate private spaces with his unique sense of distance.

This book is a large-scale compilation of his representative works from the early 2000s, primarily set in his own apartment, continuously capturing the daily lives, boredom, undressing, smoking, and languor of young women in a candid, snapshot-like style. While containing provocative images, it is distinct from pornography and fashion photography, and is imbued with the unique atmosphere of DIY culture and the New York underground scene after the No Wave. The included DVD also contains a video featuring music by Thurston Moore.