Lung with Lizard

Title: Lung with Lizard
Description: Print of a photograph from the shoot for the short film "Submit to Me Now" (1987) by Richard Kern. Lung poses with a dark lizard on her left cheek.
According to Kern, "this photograph of Lung Leg was taken in 1987 while we were shooting the very first scene in my movie Submit to Me Now in my old apartment on East 13th Street. Lung showed up at my house with a tiny green salamander in her pocket and asked if it was okay if it crawled on her face when I shot her." —; from the Exhibition A website
Date: 1987
Identifier: KERN_LUNG_LIZARD
Medium: Black-and-white photography
Creator: Kern, Richard, 1954-; film directors
Access Rights: Courtesy of the artist
Subject: Actresses; Leg, Lung, 1963-
Rights Holder: Kern, Richard, 1954-
material: Archival pigment print
image of: film short; "Submit to Me Now" (1987)
width: 20.32 cm (8 in)
height: 30.48 cm (12 in)