The seventh instalment of Baron, published by Baron Books in 2022. This edition is by New York photographer and filmmaker Richard Kern (b.1954), a key figure in the no-wave underground and the transgressive Cinema of Transgression movement, who has collaborated over the decades with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Sonic Youth, and the Butthole Surfers. Continuing his long-running investigation into the portrayal of girlhood — explored previously in New York Girls (1997) and Medicated (2020) — Kern turns to the threshold between girlhood and womanhood: the doubts, joys, and newly acquired social and sexual power that come with it. Characteristically, Kern does not cast or direct his subjects; they contact him, and pose however they choose. The work is a collaboration, not a command. Art direction by Sam Boxer. 128 pages, edition of 1,000, 27 × 35 cm.