Kim Gordon | Photograph by Richard Kern

1992.

10” x 8”; silver gelatin print; small crease at top center and left center; tiny stain at tail; autograph annotations on verso in marker and red pen; unframed and unmatted.

Kim Althea Gordon (born 1953) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and rapper best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. After graduating from Los Angeles's Otis College of Art and Design, she moved to New York City to begin an art career. There, she formed Sonic Youth with Thurston Moore in 1981. She and Moore married in 1984, and the band released a total of six albums on independent labels before the end of the 1980s. Sonic Youth released its 16th and final studio album, The Eternal, on Matador Records before disbanding in 2011.

Richard Kern (born 1954) is an American underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to prominence as part of the cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films like The Right Side of My Brain and Fingered. Like many of the musicians around him, Kern had a deep interest in the aesthetics of extreme sex, violence and perversion and was involved in the Cinema of Transgression movement, a term coined by Nick Zedd.