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RICHARD KERN — POLAROIDS

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RICHARD KERN — POLAROIDS

Art Paper Editions, 2025

A raw and expansive archive spanning over three decades of Richard Kern’s practice.
This volume gathers more than two hundred Polaroids taken across thirty-five years, moving between commercial work, editorial commissions, and personal projects. The instant format becomes a constant—used by Kern as a tool for immediacy, intimacy, and control.
At the core of the book is a sustained exploration of sexuality and human connection in its least codified forms. Through portraiture, Kern constructs a charged triangle between photographer, subject, and viewer—where tension, complicity, and exposure coexist.
The nude is central, yet stripped of idealization. Rather than pursuing formal perfection, Kern focuses on raw presence—gestures, expressions, and impulses that feel direct, unresolved, and often confrontational.
Both personal record and aesthetic statement, Polaroids stands as a distilled expression of Kern’s enduring visual language.