VIDEO: 5200 strip for Tunick's nude shoot
Tunick, who is known for his nude group photos in public spaces, posed participants for more than an hour in a variety of positions.
The event was comissioned as part of the city's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival.
"It was difficult to get the straight participants to embrace the gay participants and vice versa," Tunick said. "So I was very happy that that last setup finally got done and everyone came together [in a] united, friendly kiss, a loving kiss in front of this great structure."
"Gay men and women lay naked next to their straight neighbours and this delivered a very strong message to the world that Australians embrace a free and equal society," he added.Tunick has produced almost 100 installations around the world, and says his work is not about exhibitionism or eroticism but instead reveals the vulnerability of life in a rough city landscape.
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Spencer Tunick successfully passes a message in such a symbolic form where thousands of organizations rarely succeed without being subject to extremely violent reactions.
I personally think this is a big success for the gay rights/human rights movement.
Anonymous says
is this art though?
Nigel says
@ Anonymous: If we consider fine art photography being the only form of artistic photography, then this is not art. Otherwise this looks art to me, as much as architectural, nude and urban photography can be.
Is war photography art? What about sports, stock, wedding, food, or street photography?
Photography is not always art, but I wish you would have defined "art" before wondering what this is.
Oz Newcombe says
As a working pro, to me, not....
it seems to me like a blatant bit of PR (as a video was there to record and broadcast it on the web)... which works I guess, or I would never have heard his name.. so hats off to him in this respect.
Though the proof of the pudding is always in the eating... (we have no idea what the final shots look like !!)... so lets all reserve judgement... that's only fair and polite..
Oz.
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