Richard Kern started as a teenager
launching fanzines like "The Heroin
Addict" and "Dumb Fucker".
He made metal sculptures at college,
got thrown out of film classes and
shot "Goodbye 42nd Street", a film
banned for "promoting wrong moral
values."
Kern was the leading figure in the
movement Cinema of Transgression
before he picked up a camera and
starting shooting his girlfriend nude.
His international reputation was made
with the publication of his best-selling
book "New York Girls".