Spencer Tunick is a photographer who has figured out something interesting: Most mainstream U.S. news media won’t think of using a photograph of a naked man or woman, but if it’s a few THOUSAND naked men and women, and you call it art, well…
This is the guy who goes from city to city and poses very large crowds of buck-naked people, and the photographs show up everywhere. His latest stop was Caracas, Venezuela.
Read all about it: Watch the video:
Volunteer participants pose naked during a photo session with U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick in Caracas March 19, 2006. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
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That sounds and looks as a wonder for which the book of gunees should get ready to take note of it.
- Posted by A.R.ShamsSpencer Tunick has one of the best jobs in the world. The guy travels though globe taking nude pics of people … what could be more fun?
- Posted by Sven[...] Robert Basler links to a video (not work safe) of the photo shoot where Tunick explains why he chose the location of Av. Bolívar: Um, I picked this location because I felt that the buildings were kinda like uh, like a whale in Antartica that loses all it’s skin and it’s like bones, like you know what I mean? So I, so I, so I felt that the building was very iconic in that sense. And then, and then, I liked the view that the highway forms with the big, empty, barren street. [...]
- Posted by Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Images from Venezuela: From Bolívar AvenueI was there: It was a once in a lifetime experience!
- Posted by Alfonso J. González Y.I remember they did the same in NYC I think it was over on Times Square.
- Posted by Latino Pundit