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| Spencer Tunick Spencer Tunick (born January 1, 1967) is an American photographer. Tunick was born in Middletown, New York. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Emerson College in 1988. He is best known for his photographs that feature large numbers of nude people posed in artistic formations. In these images the nude form becomes abstract due to the sheer number so closely placed together. Known as Installations they are often situated in urban locations through out the world. He also has done some "Beyond The City" woodland and beach installations and still does individuals and small groups occasionally. In 1986 he visted London, England where he took a photographs of a nude at a bus stop and of scores of nudes in Alleyn's School's Lower School Hall in Dulwich, Southwark In 1992 Spencer Tunick started out documenting live nudes in public locations in New York through video and photographs. His early works from this period focus more on a single nude individual to small groups of nudes. These works are much more intimate images than the massive installations for which he's now known. His photos quickly became popular and he spread out to other states in America. By 1994 Spencer Tunick had organized and photographed over 65 temporary site related installations in the United States and abroad. Tunick Has taken his celebration of the nude form international and has taken photos in cities that include Bruges, Buenos Aires, Buffalo London, Lyon, Melbourne, Montreal, San Sebastián, São Paulo, Caracas, Newcastle/Gateshead, Vienna, Düsseldorf and Santiago Since 1992 Spencer Tunick has been arrested 5 times while working outdoors in New York. As in the case of every arrest the charges against him have been dropped shortly there after. He is the subject of three HBO documentaries, Naked States, Naked World, and Positively Naked. In June 2003 he completed his largest photo to date by photographing 7000 naked Spaniards in Barcelona. On June 26, 2004 he completed his largest shoot in North America in Cleveland Ohio with 2,754 people posing. In August 2004 a photo shoot was completed in Buffalo of about 1800 nudes in Buffalo's old central train station. On July 17, 2005 he photographed almost 1700 nudes on the quaysides at Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, including the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. [1]. On March 19, 2006, Tunick photographed 1500 nudes in Caracas, having people standing up, lying down and on their knees standing right next to the main Simon Bolivar statue. His models are volunteers who receive a signed photo as a reward. |
| The naked and the dead cold - all in the name of art Charlotte Higgins, arts correspondent Thursday January 19, 2006 The Guardian  Detail from Spencer Tunick NewcastleGateshead 2 Photograph: Spencer Tunick It was on July 17 last year that 1,700 Tynesiders rose at 3am, stripped naked and allowed themselves to be bossed around by an American artist with a megaphone. As a knife-sharp wind whipped round their unmentionables and a chilly dawn broke, Spencer Tunick cajoled, encouraged and jested with his hardy volunteers, persuading them to pose snakelike along the Tyne, then rivuleting through the Newcastle streets like a fleshy pink stream, then scattered on the slopes below Norman Foster's imposing Sage concert hall, across the river in Gateshead. On Saturday the artist's photographs of the six living installations he created that morning will go on show at the Baltic, Gateshead, the gallery that commissioned the works. Tunick has worked with larger numbers of nudes in the past: 7,000 in Barcelona, 4,500 in Melbourne, 4,000 in Chile and 2,500 in Montreal. But, speaking yesterday from his New York studio, he said he reserved particular respect for the Tynesiders. "They weren't doing it just to get naked, but because they genuinely wanted to help make the artwork. "On Tyneside there were a lot of older people - there was great commitment to the art and they seemed to see beyond the immediate media interest." The shot shown here, which Tunick selected specially for Eyewitness, was taken from atop the Tyne bridge looking up The Side in Newcastle. The straightbacked bodies reminded him of "newborn trees", he said. But he also adduced a "whimsical, 1984-ish narrative element to the piece" - a sense that one might imagine some curious, even sinister futuristic process being undergone by the participants: mind control? Mass cloning? Evacuation? Tunick often uses his serried naked bodies as a form of sculptural material that transforms the architecture and geography it is set against - like a kind of land art. He enjoyed the particular nature of Newcastle and Gateshead, he said: particularly the steep slopes and dramatic bridges that allowed him to work over different levels and through different perspectives. "The cities are not run over with ads and billboards for Rolexes and apparel," he added. "They are not corrupted in that way. There's a much purer architecture than you see in some places." And the reason for extraordinarily early start? It's partly to capture the morning light. It's partly to make sure that the participants have a certain privacy preserved, and to minimise traffic disruption. And it's also, he says, because people are somehow calm in the early hours. "Doing this kind of work at another time of day would make it more of a happening. I'm not really into that 60s mentality," he said. |
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