2,000 Gather for Amsterdam Nude Photo

Sun Jun 3, 2007 6:28 AM EDT
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Elliot Vos
He set a record for naked photography with a photo of 18,000 people in the buff in Mexico City last year.

I think they meant last month... He's been in the news a lot lately.

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Reply#2 - Sun Jun 3, 2007 9:02 AM EDT
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cartooncat

I want to take part in a Spencer Tunick shoot in Belgium:

He's now beginning to play with the format. "Next," he says, "I'm going to cover 50 men in Bruges with white chocolate. I've already done 60 women in dark chocolate."

Naked and covered in chocolate! What could be better than that!

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Reply#3 - Sun Jun 3, 2007 9:06 AM EDT
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epiphany sorbet

What's with the nudididity thing? Wouldn't the photo (especially at that distance) have the same impact if the cyclists were all wearing red spandex cycling suits?

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Reply#4 - Sun Jun 3, 2007 11:38 AM EDT
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Elliot Vos

Realize that this wasn't the photographer's picture, it was from the AP. Who know what angle or distance Tunick actually got the shot from.

Also note that this wasn't the picture of the cyclists. You can see that one in the News in Pictures module on the front page if you want. The idea of these pictures is the nudity. Without it, you lose the entire concept of what he's going for in his collection.

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#4.1 - Sun Jun 3, 2007 11:52 AM EDT
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epiphany sorbet

Thanks.

So, what is he going for in his collection? The Guiness world record for convincing large numbers of people to pose nude?

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#4.2 - Sun Jun 3, 2007 11:55 AM EDT
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Brian Ford

I think you're looking at this as someone who sees nudity in the wrong way. The photos become artistic because they bring up issues that can be discussed and debated.

One person nude has been done time and again. At that point, it becomes about form and beauty and whatnot. Thousands of nudes 1) brings up the debate of "naked or nude" and 2) raises the question of are they "nude" at all if thousands upon thousands of people are nude.

To me, nudity (and certainly being "naked") is usually based on the privacy and intimacy of the matter. If thousands of participants are naked, it throws the privacy and intimacy factor out the window, and you're forced to focus on other aspects of the gathering. "From a distance" they look like a pattern of shapes, sizes, colors and you lose the ability to distinguish one from the other due to being part of a whole.

If you have 30 naked people -- and one guy wearing all his clothes: My bet is that the guy wearing all the clothes is going to be the most talked about person in the photo.

These photos are art because they can be evaluated in this way and -- more importantly -- because the photographer set up the situation specifically to create said evaluation.

With that in mind, a bystanders photo of the same scene (in my view) ceases to be art (even if it's well composed) because he/she had no intention in taking the photo -- other than to capture of strange moment.

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#4.3 - Sun Jun 3, 2007 12:12 PM EDT
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djd

Over there on the left, under a tree, a great big pile of clothes.

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Reply#5 - Sun Jun 3, 2007 12:26 PM EDT
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lauhal

Ha! I wondered the same thing! On the video, linked below by tjackson, you can see them disrobing. What fun!

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#5.1 - Mon Jun 4, 2007 8:22 AM EDT
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djd

Sounds like it's worth a look. Goede reis! for Thursday by the way.

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#5.2 - Mon Jun 4, 2007 12:55 PM EDT
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RumWalker

lol at the guy looking out the window is picture 3/3

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Reply#6 - Sun Jun 3, 2007 1:01 PM EDT
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Tim Boothby

All I can think of is the video for Queen's Bicycle Race

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Reply#7 - Sun Jun 3, 2007 1:31 PM EDT
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tjackson

Here it is on tape http://www.tvn24.pl/-1,1508942.1,wiadomosc.html

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Reply#8 - Sun Jun 3, 2007 3:27 PM EDT
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lauhal

Most excellent!

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#8.1 - Mon Jun 4, 2007 8:20 AM EDT
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