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05/09/2007 02:22:37 AM · #1 |
Normally I check every day "El Universal" a Mexican newspaper and on the weekend Spencer Tunick was shooting this pictures.
Universal on line - Fotogaleria
More than 20 000 naked people right in downtown Mexico City |
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05/09/2007 02:47:43 AM · #2 |
And no way to zoom in.. =p
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05/09/2007 05:17:29 AM · #3 |
I think number 17 is really interesting as a photograph. The others rather draw their impact from the mere amount of people.
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05/09/2007 06:13:09 AM · #4 |
I gotta ask...why? Well, "why not?" is a good enough reason, but was there any other motivation? Was it in aid of a cause, or making a political statement, or a celebration of something?
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05/09/2007 06:18:28 AM · #5 |
My brother took part in Spencer's visit to Cleveland Ohio a few years ago, I wish I had gone...
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05/09/2007 07:57:34 AM · #6 |
| Yeah, why are all those people naked? |
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05/09/2007 08:01:14 AM · #7 |
A new twist on the term "Naked City".
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05/09/2007 08:16:39 AM · #8 |
| They naked as a request of the photographer. |
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05/09/2007 08:23:06 AM · #9 |
| Where do you put your car keys?? |
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05/09/2007 08:29:05 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
Where do you put your car keys?? |
Don't ask :-)
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05/09/2007 08:38:21 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by khdoss:
And no way to zoom in.. =p |
Actually, if you are using IE, just use: Ctrl +
and it will zoom you right on in on whatever it is you are trying to see :) |
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05/09/2007 08:43:10 AM · #12 |
| I have looked at most of this guys shots from the various locations he has shot in. I don't get it. I find nothing interesting, artistic or even 'good' in his shots. Most just look like snapshots of a bunch of naked people, nothing more. I don't find the shots very well taken (not that I can do better mind you) but for someone who makes such a spectacle out of his location shoots you would think there would be more substance to his pictures. |
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05/09/2007 08:46:36 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by CEJ:
for someone who makes such a spectacle out of his location shoots you would think there would be more substance to his pictures. |
Don't you know that fame is all about spectacle and not talent?
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05/09/2007 09:15:32 AM · #14 |
| perhaps, but at least you would think there would be something that you could look at in them and say "Ok, I get it. There was a purpose/reason." and I just don't see it in any of his shots. |
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05/09/2007 09:44:44 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by CEJ:
I have looked at most of this guys shots from the various locations he has shot in. I don't get it. I find nothing interesting, artistic or even 'good' in his shots. Most just look like snapshots of a bunch of naked people, nothing more. I don't find the shots very well taken (not that I can do better mind you) but for someone who makes such a spectacle out of his location shoots you would think there would be more substance to his pictures. |
From what I've seen to date, I have to agree. It seems like nudity for nudity's sake and mass quantities of nudity to stun the masses.
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05/09/2007 10:32:14 AM · #16 |
| Throw in the running of the bulls, and now you have got something. |
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05/09/2007 10:34:08 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by boomtap:
Throw in the running of the bulls, and now you have got something. |
HA!
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05/09/2007 11:06:58 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by boomtap:
Throw in the running of the bulls, and now you have got something. |
LOL I would consider paying money to see that :P |
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05/09/2007 11:09:58 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by boomtap:
Throw in the running of the bulls, and now you have got something. |
lol that would be great I would pay to see that also....lol...
wow on those pictures damn thats a hell of alot of people
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05/09/2007 11:18:53 AM · #20 |
| Can ya'll see me? 456th person to the left of the blond girls next to the guy with the black hair. Right next to the cute Hispanic girl and two people away from the older grandmother, at the feet of the woman with ponytails and only a couple of people right of the 20 year old college student. |
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05/09/2007 11:27:36 AM · #21 |
Originally posted by CEJ:
... I don't get it. I find nothing interesting, artistic or even 'good' in his shots. Most just look like snapshots of a bunch of naked people, nothing more. I don't find the shots very well taken (not that I can do better mind you) but for someone who makes such a spectacle out of his location shoots you would think there would be more substance to his pictures. |
One of the things I look for in photographs (or in any works regardless of medium) is if there is anything I haven't seen before. When we see (hear, feel, experience...) something we haven't encountered before, it makes us review that which we do know in a new light, marginally perhaps, but still.
Sure, it's a spectacle, a public show. Many photographers chase spectacles. Some create them. Yet I don't think it's a spectacle at anyone's expense. The individual subjects have been merged into an anonymous sea. The fact that they're stripped of their uniforms, can be seen as a humanizing attribute.
Whether or not these images bear any substance, as you say, or not, I'd agree that this is quite questionable. But this sort of question has been en vogue for half a century already. It's almost a convention. As such, it would appeal to more conventinal players (curators, galleries etc), rather than to more original minds.
Message edited by author 2007-05-09 11:29:32. |
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05/09/2007 11:28:48 AM · #22 |
"Massive naked people shot."
'Bout time somebody did something about those nudists hanging around the Haagen Dazs. Cull the herd, I say. |
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05/09/2007 11:33:05 AM · #23 |
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05/09/2007 11:50:06 AM · #24 |
| Now that I find hilarious! |
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05/09/2007 11:50:35 AM · #25 |
hmmm add several hundred liters of multiple colors of paint and a very large canvas
THEN you have ART ;)
&/or peanut oil then you have SEX
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