Over 1,500 Venezuelans pose nude in public for US artist

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CARACAS (Venezuela) — More than 1,500 Venezuelans shed their clothes on a main city avenue and posed for American photographer Spencer Tunick yesterday, forming a human mosaic in front of a national symbol: a statue of independence hero Simon Bolivar.

As Tunick shouted commands through a megaphone, nude people of every shape, size and skin tone gathered on the avenue and stairs in front of the statue just before dawn.

“There are some people over there with clothes, get them out of there!” Tunick shouted. “Be quiet please. Heads down!”

For the volunteers, being part of Tunick’s art meant letting go of their inhibitions and enduring a two-hour series of sometimes uncomfortable positions on the pavement.



Google link to Spencer Tunicks other stuff (Pretty graphic!) :

http://images.google.com/images?q=Spencer+Tunick+&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

quite the opposite, actually. The nudity is desexualised by the number of people involved, and the juxtaposition of so many people stripped bare against various architectural backdrops makes humans look small, fragile and out of place next to the environments they construct.