Spencer Tunick (born 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, known as Installations often situated in urban locations.

Tunick started out in 1992 photographing nudes on the streets of New York. His photos quickly became popular and he spread out to other states in America. Tunick went international and has taken photos in cities that include Bruges, Buffalo London, Lyon, Melbourne, Montreal, San Sebastián, São Paulo, Caracas, Newcastle/Gateshead and Vienna.

He was arrested in 1994 with a female model when she posed nude in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. He is the subject of three HBO documentaries, Naked Stated, Naked World, and Positively Naked.

In June 2003 he completed his largest photo by photographing 7000 Spaniards in Barcelona. 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. [http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/03/19/um/m-01161498.htm

His models are volunteers who receive a signed photo as a reward.

See also

• clothes free people
• public nudity

External links

• Spencer Tunick - official website
• In the studio: Spencer Tunick - London Telegraph interview
• Spencer Tunick Fan - fan site
• Around Noon: Spencer Tunick - The Naked Truth - NPR radio diary

1967 births | Living people | American photographers | People from New York | Nudity

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