Action

After just a quick flip though Action, patterns emerge that point to Kern’s favourite personal touches – a fondness for nylons and high heels, on-location shooting and a subtle appreciation for 90’s pop culture. Upon giving this volume some more attention, though, it becomes apparent that the models’ personalities and senses of humour play a vital part in the creation of the photographs, too: cigarettes being smoked from between toes, pin-ups posed with birth control pills in hand, gleeful interactions with sex toys and groceries all add curiosity and quirkiness to this sexy visual feast.Complete with an accompanying DVD and a clever disguise in the form of a reversible dust jacket, this gorgeously glossy book of photographs by erotic photographer Richard Kern is definitely an amusing and exciting ride! Edited by Dian Hanson

By Richard Kern, 280 pages, 2007. Published by Taschen.

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