[ nws ] 18,000 Mexicans Strip for Nude Photograph

Linzyhop · 05-07-2007, 11:57 AM

18,000 Mexicans Strip for Nude Photograph
Sunday , May 06, 2007

MEXICO CITY —
More than 18,000 people stripped down and bared it all in Mexico City's vast main square Sunday for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick's biggest nude shoot yet.

Standing up to salute, crouching in fetal positions and lying prone on the tiles of the Zocalo plaza, the volunteers formed a sea of flesh that Tunick snapped from balconies and a small crane in the morning light.

"What a moment for the Mexican art scene!" Tunick said in a news conference. "I think all eyes are looking south from the United Sates 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."
The Brooklyn, N.Y., artist has become famous for photographing thousands of naked people in public settings worldwide, from London and Vienna to Buenos Aires and Buffalo.

But the Mexico City shoot dwarfed all others. Previously his best turnout had been 7,000 models in Barcelona in 2003.

"I just create shapes and forms with human bodies. It's an abstraction, it's a performance, it's an installation," Tunick said. "So I don't care how many people showed up. All I know is that I filled up my space."
The heart of this city since it was founded by the Aztecs in 1325, the Zocalo measures about 21,000 square yards — the size of five football fields.

Men and women from a broad cross section of ages and social classes began arriving before dawn, although most volunteers were young men.
"The important thing is not that it's your body or someone else's but that you participate in something as a society," said Oscar Roman Munoz, a 25-year-old engineer. "This reflects the need for change and integration in world trends."

For Tunick's first photo, the models stood upright and gave a military-like salute to their national flag. In another, they lay down to form a blanket of flesh around a naked man in a wheelchair. Between shots, they burst out into verses of Mexican folk songs such as "Cielito Lindo."

Public nudity is hardly a novelty in Mexico City, where protesters often march through the streets wearing only their underwear or nothing at all.

i'd do it.

Stylerod · 05-07-2007, 12:06 PM

And we'd watch....

Saw an HBO special on this guy. It was pretty interesting. I think his photo's of just one or a few people are much more artistic than this whole group thing. But the groups get the headlines.

DosEquis · 05-07-2007, 01:40 PM

Prove it, where is the nudes?

Stylerod · 05-07-2007, 02:05 PM

Originally Posted by DosEquis

Prove it, where is the nudes?

Since it's "Art" this should be allowed, right?

if not. NSFW below!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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http://mai9.net/fotos/d/21-1/DSCN5398_+compry.jpg

kinggovernor · 05-07-2007, 02:13 PM

now this is NSFW but hilarious

http://www.streetneeds.com/uploads/a...rtistica_1.jpg

Stylerod · 05-07-2007, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by kinggovernor

now this is NSFW but hilarious

http://www.streetneeds.com/uploads/a...rtistica_1.jpg

DosEquis · 05-07-2007, 02:30 PM

Linzyhop · 05-07-2007, 03:16 PM

glad you all appreciate the "art"

Stylerod · 05-07-2007, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by Linzyhop

glad you all appreciate the "art"

Oh hush you!

7960 · 05-07-2007, 03:54 PM

18k?

next time they go to break a record for naked mexicans they're going to have to go to LA

Linzyhop · 05-07-2007, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by 7960

18k?

next time they go to break a record for naked mexicans they're going to have to go to LA

kinggovernor · 05-07-2007, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by Linzyhop

glad you all appreciate the "art"

the human body is an artform

Linzyhop · 05-07-2007, 06:13 PM

Originally Posted by kinggovernor

the human body is an artform

yeah, some are better art than others.

kinggovernor · 05-07-2007, 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by Linzyhop

yeah, some are better art than others.

do you have any examples of good female ones

Linzyhop · 05-08-2007, 09:38 AM

Originally Posted by kinggovernor

do you have any examples of good female ones

jo mama.

Dumpy Dooby · 05-09-2007, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by Stylerod

Since it's "Art" this should be allowed, right?

if not. NSFW below!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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http://mai9.net/fotos/d/21-1/DSCN5398_+compry.jpg

bottom-left has a guy with a boner.

kinggovernor · 05-09-2007, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by Linzyhop

jo mama.

not really

JaJae · 05-09-2007, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by Dumpy Dooby

bottom-left has a guy with a boner.

you would notice that out of a crowd of 16,000 people...

Roonie · 05-09-2007, 07:37 PM

I know if I was in that photo I would try and get a boner if possible among 16,000 others. I could say you could spot me out of the whole crows but I already know what the responses will be.

Linzyhop · 05-10-2007, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by Roonie

I know if I was in that photo I would try and get a boner if possible among 16,000 others. I could say you could spot me out of the whole crows but I already know what the responses will be.

yeah.. um... don't go there.