Thousands of naked people fill Mexico City's main Zocalo plaza during the massive naked photo session with U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick in the early hours of Sunday May 6, 2007. Associated Press photo by Claudio Cruz
Posted on 05/06/2007 9:04:33 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
(05-06) 14:11 PDT MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) --
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...
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Thousands of naked people fill Mexico City's main Zocalo plaza during the massive naked photo session with U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick in the early hours of Sunday May 6, 2007. Associated Press photo by Claudio Cruz
I wonder what they were paid, you couldn’t get that many people to strip for free.
I seriously doubt Paulina Rubio, Thalia Mottola, and Salma Hayek were there.
I’m concerned about how many people in the “audience” gave themselves some self gratification. A sick thought, I know.
Somebody tell Tunick that artists have been treating the naked body as art for thousands of years.
And frankly I think these mass getherings of naked people all posing in the same manner is completely dehumanizing, like watching some sort of Nazi war rally, only everyone is a Marxist or anarchist.
Spencer Tunick has succeeded in the sexual conquest of each and every person he has photographed. If he offered to spray them with pig semen, he would still get thousands of pathetic volunteers begging and groveling to be so degraded.
All for the fear of being perceived as anti-social and “closed-minded”.
I believe he is an evil genius, and that he loves his work.
Pervet friggin idiot alert....
we want any of these numbskulls sneaking into our gene pool?
Ah geese, not this stuff again!!!!
17,000 people ate bean burritos before the shoot.
"What a moment for the Mexican fart scene!" Tunick said in a news conference.
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Can you imagine what would have happened if they had all been given Viagra?
“Can you imagine what would have happened if they had all been given Viagra?”
Yes. San Franciscans would move there in droves.
Gee, couldn’t you manage some closeups? Especially of Selma Hayak or Penelope Cruz.
Or at least get an answer to the age-old question:
"What's the weirdest thing you could get 18,000 Mexican fools to do on a Sunday morning?"
They could only manage 18,000? Thats because 30 MILLION are up here. GO HOME. You are missing out.....
This is art??
“Gee, couldn’t you manage some closeups? Especially of Selma Hayak or Penelope Cruz.”
you mean they are different people?
Hell, i can’t tell them apart unless they are naked!
Anyone have any pictures?
(Somebody had to say it)
As mentioned above, Selma Hayak or Penelope Cruz would make a good start...
Did someone say Salma Hayek? I don't see any pictures of her on this thread yet...
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