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Old January 22nd, 2017, 05:19 PM   #1
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Gern was a adult photographer for almost 30 years and active until the 1990s. He photographed models like Christy Canyon, Danni Ashe or Anna Ventura. Is he still alive? Any possibility to contact him? Send me a PM!



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Old December 23rd, 2017, 11:58 PM   #2
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"Gern Blanston" was a fake name from a Steve Martin bit back in the late 70s, and is almost certainly a pseudonym here.
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Old August 1st, 2019, 07:41 PM   #3
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Gern must have been a friend of Zen Buckaroo (pen name of photographer Ed Sonner who worked for Hustler when Larry Flynt was active). I say this as Zen's Blogger page (inactive but still up) has a link to Gern's wordpres blog (search Gern Blanson My life with naked ladies) where Gern lists the models he shot and he puts in brackets the ones Zen also shot. He says Zen couldn't make the list as he always forgets models names. The post is from 2006. Zen retired to SEAsia.


edit - yes I know this is an old thread but i just discovered Gern trying to find Zen photosets. P

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Old August 10th, 2019, 12:34 PM   #4
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I’ve been doing more research on Gern and Zen It’s actually Zen aka Ed Sonner I was interested in but I have now become interested in Gern. Although I said in my previous post they seem to be friends, in fact Zen describes them as partners on the Wordpress site I also mentioned before. In a piece titled Danni Ashe...what a rush he says “One day I awoke and went into the studio. my partner Gern had a shoot, I never paid attention much to who he shot and he paid little to mine. We were both shooting an average of three girls a week”. In the next article on that site called A Horny Huster Zen says he lived in Ohio when Gern was in California. I know Zen moved to California (I wrote to him there) so perhaps they were renting studio space there. He also mentions acting as a model (playing the part of a potter) in a Gern photoset with Danni Ashe.

I disagree with Zemog, above, that Gern Blanson is a fake name - at least for the reasons he gives. Zemog gives a different surname Blanston - notice the t. If you search for Blanson (without t which is how Gern spells it) you’ll find quite a few in the USA and the history of the surname shows it to be English and from the 13th century. I’d never heard of it nor the first name Gern. Google says “A user from Wisconsin, United States says the name Gern is of Unknown origin and means "A mans name meaning lover of working rods. A rodsmith.”” Regardless, Gern seems to have been using the surname Blanson since the early 70s at least - well before Zemog says Martin used it in late 70s. We’ll have some more evidence in a minute.

There’s a video here http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=314459&highlight=sex+sluts+galaxy (still up on 1fichier), released 1991, directed by a Gern Blanson (same guy surely). There are 4 men credited at the start: Rick Savage, Jesse Eastern, Richard Tracy and Jon Blanson However there are actually 5 men in the movie. We’ll come back to that.

I know what Savage and Eastern look like so we can discount those. Both have sex scenes. That leaves Tracy. I don’t know what he looks like. I searched with no luck but I assume he is the only other guy in the movie who has a full sex scene.

This leaves 2 guys. According to the titles, Jon Blanson (relative? Pseudonym? Another Blanson!) plays the part of Moss who I guess is the martian. We do not see his face. He has no sex scene apart from using a dildo on a model.

The other guy who isn’t credited plays the part of a radio host (eg 0.28.10 mark) and looks like Zen ie Ed Sonner. Bear in mind I have only seen 2 photos of Ed ever. One from the mid 70s that I cannot recall and one from the last decade where he looks just an older version of the guy in the video. A distinctive face.

Google also tells me that Gern has a set in Puritan International 52 published 1996. You can see a Zen Hustler cover of October 1975 here http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?p=3980378#post3980378

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Just to keep myself up to date lol: This thread http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...SON#post796756 post #353 suggests Gern Blanson = Lance Kincaid although Mr Bungle can't remember why he thought that. His post here http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...aid#post235271 #84 lists 3 issues of Gent magazine Kincaid had a photoset in. A google tells me there's an interview with him in GENT; Home of the D-Cups Vol. 23, No. 01 / January 1982. I'm rabbitholing here, of course lol. Kincaid seems to have a penchant for busty women. I don't know if Blanson has. Kincaid has an imdb entry here mostly from 1980s https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1081605/ I'm as yet unconvinced they are the same person.

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I exhausted my searching last night. Some additional material. Remember i started looking for Zen Buckaroo/Ed Sonner material not Gern Blanson.

1. There's an imdb entry for an Ed Sonner here https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10939770/ I don't know it's the same guy but he's listed as an actor in 2 movies Bodacious Ta' Ta's (great title!) and Let's talk sex playing a bouncer in both. "My" Ed doesn't have a bouncer build but hey this is porn. The era - 1980's - fits. I've not searched these movies yet.
2. There's an imdb entry here https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10939770/ for Zen Buckaroo in a movie called High Heel Harlots 2 (another great title). I can't find it anywhere though although a HHH 4 is listed online somewhere via google search. Again the date fits - early 1990s. I know "my" Zen was working until at least the late 90s. I had an American skin mag called Asian something from about 1998 that he did a photoset and some text for.
3. A google of "lance kincaid ed sonner" shows they both shot Fawn Miller and had photosets published the same year 1992.
4. The same google search brings up both names registered to the same Californian street name too. I'm not doxxing. it's in the public domain. Besides, Ed doesn't even live in USA now. I don't know how legit the site is and it's not accessible. It just seems odd that both names pull up same street name. Perhaps Kincaid is Blanson. Or maybe there's 3 of them. If only I still had contact with Zen. He seems to have given up all forum use. I remember him selling his equipment and saying I've done my time it's someone else's turn.

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And there's more. i found Bodacious Ta ta's here http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...ious+ta+ta%27s 1fichier still live and movie downloaded. Will view later. Also found Let's talk sex and found live link elsewhere but they are SLOW Nitro downloads as i have no access.

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I can confirm it is Ed Sonner aka Zen Buckaroo in Bodacious Ta Ta's. He is the guy sitting stage left who catches Patty Plenty's bra at 17:07 mark then has a line where he throws a guy out the club. Not a bad movie. Live club dancing scenes plus sex scenes shot elsewhere. Confirmed it is Ed/Zen in in Sex sluts from beyond the galaxy mentioned earlier in thread.

edit: and Lance kincaid has an imdb entry here https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1081605/ as either videographer or stills photographer on lots of adult movies including 2 busty ones (one where he does stills. We've already established a busty penchant). Active years are 83-94.

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Okay my last update followed by a TL/DR of my last 5 posts in case anyone is ever interested lol.

I watched Vatelli’s let’s talk sex which is right here http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...hlight=vatelli 1fichier still live. Wow. I swear I searched and couldn’t find that on here. Took me ages to find it elsewhere lol. Sure enough Ed/Zen is a bouncer at 17:07.

A google of “Lance Kincaid Shauna Grant” tells us he had a studio in Tarzana, CA and an office in LA.

A google of “Lance kincaid photography” brings up an address in Palmdale CA which as I said earlier is the same area of CA that a google of “Lance Kincaid Ed Sonner” brings up.

TL/DR
1. Ed Sonner aka Zen Buckaroo was a business partner of Gern Blanson.
2. Ed Sonner was neighbours with Lance Kincaid
3. it is suggested that Blanson and Kincaid are one and the same person.

I’m unconvinced as yet.
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Ed's blogs have been dormant for years now but based upon his online auction activity I believe he is still with us. (The current username is a slight variation of his old auction username) I suspect among the other mags mentioned, Ed did quite a bit for Gourmet Editions. He has a certain style which is recognizable.
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