18000 Nude Volunteers for Mexico City Photo by Spencer Tunick
18,000 people stripped down for Spencer Tunick in Mexico City’s largest square on Sunday morning, setting a new record for the U.S. photographer famed for his mass nude photo shoots.
CBC reports male and female volunteers of different ages stood and saluted, lay down on the ground, crouched in the fetal position and otherwise posed for Tunick’s lens in Mexico City’s Zocalo Square, the city’s massive central plaza also known as Plaza de la Constitucion.
“What a moment for the Mexican art scene!” Tunick said at a news conference (Dario Lopez-Mills/Associated Press). “I think all eyes are looking south from the United States to Mexico City to see how a country can be free and treat the naked body as art. Not as pornography or as a crime, but with happiness and caring.”
In the past, the U.S. photographer faced arrest — even at home in New York — for his photo shoots, in which he snaps images of nude volunteers in public. However, nudity is more widely accepted in Mexico, where protestors sometimes attend demonstrations nude or clad only in underwear.
The turnout for Sunday’s photo shoot far surpassed Tunick’s previous record, when about 7,000 people showed up to pose for him in Barcelona.
This latest photo shoot was about five years in the making, with Mexican officials first turning down the photographer’s request to set the shoot at the Teotihuacan pyramids outside the capital.
Volunteers were not compensated financially for their involvement, but will be given copies of the photo for their participation.
Tunick has staged his photo shoots around the world, including in London, Vienna, Sao Paulo, Caracas, Buffalo and Montreal.
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Yikes! I think I’ll keep my clothes on. I guess you had to be there to get the full experience of this particular “artsy” event. *Snicker*
Can you see me there right in the middle?? LOL
I wonder what would happen if I went out in the street and asked everyone to go naked so I could take their photo for Melbourne In Photos!
Think I’d get arrested. Lucky spencer I suppose!
That’s a lot potential “life drawing” models for the very keen artist…..the possibilities to develop an artwork from this vision are endless!!!! Thanks for the post….
Kim
Something like that could probably never happen in the southern states. If we could just seperate the sexual thinking from being naked we would be alright.
Hey Matt,
I hear you…I think I’ll be keeping my clothes on too
Tom,
Feel lucky in that you weren’t the one that got the bike up the *middle*, kee.
John,
I hadn’t thought about that! It makes a person wonder how he managed to pull it off the first time around without getting a few slaps in the face, haha.
Kim,
You see, that’s why you’re such a telented artist…you see the art form before the nudity, whereas it’s the reverse for many people in general.
James,
I doubt that something like that would happen here in western Canada as well. Interestingly tho, he did one of these photo shoots in Montreal.
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