Naked sea: over a thousand naked people take part in a shocking flash mob in Israel

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

1,200 people from Israel, Jordan and Palestine came together to participate in an original flash mob from an American photographer famous for his massive nude photo shoots. The purpose of the Israeli flash mob was to draw public attention to the environmental problems of the Dead Sea.

Tunic which year pleases Internet users with stunning mass photo sessions with the participation of naked people. Hundreds or even thousands of fans of his talent gather for such flash mobs, who are ready to voluntarily strip themselves to participate in very peculiar "live" installations.

Spencer Tunick has been working in nude since 1992. Over the years, the number of models involved in the shoot only increased, and the places for the photo shoot became more and more exotic. So, the largest in terms of the number of participants was the Mexican performance of 2007: then in Mexico City they were not afraid to throw off all the unnecessary 18,000 people.

Work Tunic, which are typically an amalgamation of flash mob, land art and sculpture, explore social, political and legal issues. Despite the fact that his actions are devoid of sexual connotation and are not propaganda, the artist has been taken into custody several times over the past thirteen years.

Soon after another arrest, he filed a lawsuit against the New York authorities in order to further protect himself and the participants in the mass photo sessions from possible arrests. In May 2000, the Second US District Court sided with Tunick, finding that his activities were not contrary to the US Constitution.

Another impressive installation Tunic took place in 2011 in Israel. In order to draw attention to the alarmingly sharp drop in the water table, causing the sea level to fall by one meter every year, the photographer gathered an army of volunteers from Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians.

Tunick said he was seriously concerned that salt mining, pumping out groundwater and climate change could lead to an environmental disaster. A total of 1,200 people took part in the Israeli flash mob, who decided to confront a potential disaster in such an original way. The performance was named symbolically - Naked Sea.

Another painter, French Frédéric Fontenoy, also devoted himself to shooting beautiful naked bodies … His most famous photo cycles, Metamorphose and Fusion, created in the early 90s of the last century, still look relevant.