Saturday, January 12, 2008

Spencer Tunick in Miami

Spencer Tunick in Miami
Nude volunteers prepare for a shot in a South Beach art deco hotel pool.

Whatever you think of Spencer Tunick, his work certainly gets attention and makes statements on several levels. Not only is there the work itself, with intended and unintended statements, but also the fact that these are volunteers, hundreds of area volunteers to model nude. What does it say that at least a small portion of the population is willing to take part? Some are undoubtably nudists, others artists or art models themselves. Others might be friends of the former two groups or connected in such a way to hear about a shoot. Whatever the case it's not only a visual display you don't usually see, but an interesting side of humanity that you don't usually see.

More of the Miami shots:
A Bit of Buff (Sky News)

1 comment:

Roger Coss said...

Hello Amazing,
Some of Spencer's models are nudists, but he prefers non-nudists. Some of the participants learned of the Miami installation through our site The Spencer Tunick Forum, www.spencertunickforum.org
One drove from Illinois with a friend to take part, as he had participated in two events before.
I have been in a few myself, and am not a nudist-though one of my fellow models once said we are "serial nudists"

We discuss past events, the nture of the art itself, and we try to keep people informed of where Spencer will be next, like Austria in May. We have examples of Spencer's works including some of his lesser known individual portraits.
Roger
Roger