450 Women Join Nude Photo Shoot in N.Y.

AP/Yahoo ^ | 10/26/03 | Madison J. Gray

[martin_fierro]

450 Women Join Nude Photo Shoot in N.Y.

By MADISON J. GRAY, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - The women crossed their arms to keep warm in the main concourse of Grand Central Terminal early Sunday as they prepared to pose for Spencer Tunick's latest human art installation. All 450 of them were nude.

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The women, all volunteers, arrived at about 3 a.m. Sunday, stripped off their clothes and composed their bodies into sculptural shapes and formations meant to imitate streets, buildings and cityscapes. The building had been closed to the public during the shoot.

"I wanted to bring the most beautiful people into the most beautiful building," he said Sunday inside the Grand Central concourse.

Tunick took photographs from a stairway in the concourse. He shouted instructions through a megaphone, telling the women to form triangles and square with their bodies on the floor.

"I love his art and I think he's creating an amazing thing — something different, something fresh," said Anna Springer, 30, a real estate executive.

Tunick, a New York-based artist, has gained an international reputation for his arrangements of nude art installations involving hundreds of people in cities around the world. He's also been arrested several times in New York for previous projects.

For his latest, he said, he first sought permission to use the New York Public Library and the Museum of Natural History but was rebuffed by both.

Tunick's past nude shoots in New York have sometimes provoked controversy.

In January 1996, two of his nude models were arrested atop of a Manhattan snowdrift, posed beneath an ice-cream parlor sign that advertised "Frozen Fantasies."

On New Year's Eve 1994, Tunick and a model were arrested when she posed nude on top of an 8-foot-high simulated Christmas tree ornament at Rockefeller Center.

Charges were dismissed in both cases.

"In the past, the New York administration considered the body to be a crime, or pornographic," Tunick said Sunday. "I hope this administration considers the vulnerability of the body."

The current installation is part of the artist's "Naked World," in which he has been traveling the world, hoping to gather more than 35,000 people to pose.

[martin_fierro]

Boobs.

[martin_fierro]

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[Hildy]

Yawn.

[T'wit]

I have a growing collection of photos like this, of nude groups doing the kind of weird things that weirdos do. I keep them in a directory labeled "liberals."

[Lazamataz]

Boy, did I leave New York at the wrong time, or what?

Boobs.

Heh-hehhheh-heheehheheh-ehehehhehehhheh.
Huh-huuhhuuuhuhuhuh-hhhuhuuhuhuuh-huhhuhuhuhuh.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Nice work if you can get it.

[T'wit]

Hey, look up on the balcony -- there are lots of spectators. I think I see Bill Clinton.

[Lazamataz]

Yawn.

You know what they say. One man's mate is another man's person.

[nmh]

Bet they are as ugly as sin. Speaking of sin, bet most are lesbains. After there done sprawling all over filthy floors, objects etc, bet ya they all get infections. Totally stupid.

[Chad Fairbanks]

This is stupid... But, I suppose everyone needs a hobby of sorts... ;0)

[Neets]

This IS NOT the reason I was awake at 3.

[Rebelbase]

Next to a bakery, that's the most buns i've ever seen.

[VOA]

450 Women Join Nude Photo Shoot in N.Y.

This is scary...presuming they represent a statistically-balanced
population of NY females.

If they want attention, they need to get 450 UCLA, USC, UCI, and UCSD beach bunnies
in the buff at one time.
Then I might even pay attention.

[gg188]

The women, all volunteers...

If not volunteers, what would they have been? Forced at gunpoint? Impressed by a judge via a sentence? Commanded by their dominatrix?

[lowbridge]

"I wanted to bring the most beautiful people into the most beautiful building," he said Sunday inside the Grand Central concourse.

If any of the nekkid ladies rank below a 7 on a 1-10 scale, I'm suing for false representation.

[FITZ]

Bet they are as ugly as sin.

I'll bet their ugly too. "Volunteers", and we know the ones who look good get nude for money.

[Vigilanteman]

Looks like nekkid cows to me.

[SSN558]

If you consider the pictures of mass graves from the Holocaust art, well then I guess this is art.

[Cobra64]

After there done sprawling all over filthy floors...

Isn't it: "there" = "they're" ?