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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 throughout 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, UK 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. In each case, the charges against him were dropped shortly thereafter.
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. 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.
Links- Spencer Tunick - official website
- In the studio: Spencer Tunick - London Telegraph interview
- Around Noon: Spencer Tunick - The Naked Truth - NPR radio diary
- 'Spencer Tunick: about art and transgression' - article
- http://thespencertunickexperience.org/
- Spencer Tunick Forum - unofficial website set up for models, and others who appreciate Spencer's art.
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Make it naked! RT One of the world's most unconventional photographers, American artist Spencer Tunick is coming to the Russian capital for a revealing photo shoot. ... |
Exclusive: Spencer Tunick Corrals 300 Naked People in Front of ... Flavorwire Spencer Tunick: I've done maybe twenty, twenty-five. Outside of New York, close to sixty. I've scouted Niagara Falls on two occasions. ... |
 SFist | Live! Nude! Trees! SFist One part Spencer Tunick, famous for his installations of hundreds of nude people in public spaces, another part Eliot Porter, photographer of exquisitely ... |
 East Hampton Star | Naked and on the Rocks at Montauk Point East Hampton Star (June 22, 2009) An estimated 300 people showed up to bare all in a Spencer Tunick art installation at Montauk Point State Park in the early ... |
 Irish Independent | Nude volunteers win Tunick praise for baring it Irish Independent Thousands of volunteers taking part in Spencer Tunick's nude photo shoot at Poolbeg in Dublin last summer. The American artist has now released the pictures ... Blarney in the buff as naked truth of more than 1100 bodies goes ... |
Art museum's new East Wing is a celebration of firsts Cleveland Jewish News Center stage is Spencer Tunick's controversial 2004 photograph “Ohio 1 (Museum of Contemporary Art),” in which more than 2700 naked volunteers lay back to ... |
'Stay-at-home mum' has honour of being first living sculpture The Herald It is not the first time the 41-year-old has taken part in a work of art, having disrobed for a Spencer Tunick naked photograph installation, though he said ... |
TODAY 09:14 : Cork's Midsummer Festival more.. Businessandleadership.com - Sharing Intelligence And even if you can't make it to Cork, as part of the festival, the online installation of renowned artist Spencer Tunick's first Irish work of elaborately ... |
The bare truth of why we all like to look at naked women Irish Independent It took the American photographer Spencer Tunick to prove that the days of Irish reticence about public nudity were largely over. ... |
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