Richard Kern, Polaroids / Special Edition architecture seen and unseen

seen and unseen

‘Mascottegalerij / Mascot Gallery’ is an overview of 84 textile cuddle toys

Hands that dig in the earth

This interplay of happenstance and control extends well beyond these familiar occasions and their attendant sensibilities

Richard Kern, Polaroids / Special Edition architecture seen and unseenFor more than three decades Richard Kern has sought to unravel and illuminate the complex and often darker sides of human nature. Kern makes the psychological space between the sitter, photographer and audience his subject. With his dry, matter of fact approach, he underlines the absurdity of truth and objectivity in photography while playing with our reliance upon taxonomies around sexual representation. This publications contains more than 200