Video: Massive Nude Installations by Spencer Tunick
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Spencer Tunick, 38, an artist and photographer from New York, creates stunning, realistic installations featuring a huge number of naked people. His projects were seen by residents of many countries around the world, including London, Vienna, Caracas, Sao Paulo. He photographed 7,000 naked people in Barcelona, 4,500 in Melbourne, 4,000 in Chile and 2,500 in Montreal.
New York-based photographer Spencer Tunick broke his own record by forcing 17,000 Mexicans to voluntarily take off their clothes and pose for him in Mexico City's main square. You need to really be able to convince people so that such a huge number of people voluntarily take off their clothes and pose for several hours in the open air. Volunteers, men and women of different ages, stood and lay curled up in a fetal position in Plaza Zocalo in Mexico City.
In the past, an American photographer, even in his native New York, was arrested for taking pictures of naked people in public. In Mexico City, there is a more loyal attitude towards the nude, where Protestants often go to demonstrations naked, or in only their underwear.
But not all Mexicans were delighted with Tanik's production. "They are losing their dignity as men and women," said Armando Pineda, 63, a Mexico City resident who watched the already dressed models leave the square. For their participation in the mass nude shooting, the volunteers did not receive any money, but each of the participants was given a copy of the photo.
Photographer Spencer Tanik also gathered naked people on a glacier in Switzerland, but this time his massive installation carried a certain message. About 600 volunteers from all over Europe as part of the Greenpeace program went to the glacier to draw public attention to the problem of global warming. Greenpeace officials believe that if global warming is not stopped, most glaciers will disappear from the face of the earth by 2080.
Spencer says that he tries to explore the human body at two levels: at the abstract level, as if it were stones or flowers. And on a more social level, to represent vulnerability and humanity in relation to nature and the city, to remind people where they came from.
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