<===Richard Kern
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"His work is no different than how the girls are POSED and OBJECTIFIED in magazines such as playboy."
Actually it is. in his work, his models are smoking pot, hiking, watering pot plants, putting in contact lenses, popping zits. Pretty nonerotic activities. You ever see that in playboy? the point is, the majority of his work is nonsexual. They could almost be stills taken from a nudist camp.
In his photos, the models aren't the object, they're the subject. They are occupied with doing something normal (holding a tissue to a bloody nose) and subjective. It's less about the model and more about the context of the model, what the model is doing. In contrast, pornography typically documents the sexuality of the models. Something I find lacking in most of Richard's work.