Spencer Tunick
GALLERIES
Nerve has a gallery of Tunick's photographs online; move your mouse around the first photograph to find links to other photographs in the gallery.
Nerve
This site appears to have been Spencer Tunick's homepage on free web space, last updated in 1998. It includes a personal statement by the artist and two galleries of his recent work.
Spencer Tunick (at Razorfish)
The Italian art world site kwArt has an undated two-minute
video of Spencer Tunick directing a mass nude photo shoot in Rome. (If you have high-speed Internet access, try this
higher quality version of the video.)
kwArt
ARTICLES
More than 2000 Montrealers posed nude Sunday morning for photographer Spencer Tunick, who creates "human sculptures" by assembling and photographing large groups of naked volunteers. Tunick has created about fifty such works in cities around the world, though he's been arrested five times in his hometown of New York. One model described the experience, "The first moment when everyone took off their clothes was like a lot of people running into the ocean at the same time, like diving into something very liberating." Another said, "You're in a state of complete vulnerability. But then it became more like a communion. We all blended in together as an organic piece." And another, "Once everyone was naked, it really didn't matter that everyone was naked because everyone was naked." An earlier Montreal Gazette article previewed both Tunick's planned shoot and an upcoming Museum of Contemporary Art show including Tunick's work.
Montreal Gazette (May 2001)
Spencer Tunick produced one of his
nude group photographs in Rome's Piazza Navona this week. A group of 50 Italians turned up in the cold air and pre-dawn light to undress and pose for the photographer.
ITN (Apr 2001)
Cathy Lebovitz reports on Spencer Tunick's legal victory before the Supreme Court. "On June 3, the U.S. Supreme Court refused the City of New York's final attempt to prevent artist Spencer Tunick from moving ahead with a photo shoot to produce one of his panoramic cityscapes containing numerous unclad individuals.... The Supreme Court's action allowed the 5:30 A.M. photo shoot, involving some 100 nudes arranged in a dense formation on a residential city street, to take place on June 4."
Art in America (Sep 2000)
David Pescovitz covers a Spencer Tunick photo shoot in San Francisco, then interviews Tunick later that day. "At the beginning, I think my photos were more dreamy and whimsical. Then they became more socially conscious. In my latest pictures, I've tried to juxtapose the human condition against the metal cars and the pavement, the softness of the human body against the hardness of the streets."
Retina (1995)
Spencer Tunick photographed his latest nude human sculpture at Expo.02 in Neuchatel, Switzerland. This page has a French article about the event and two small photos. The site also has an interview with Tunick (also in French) and this fabulously nerdy-looking photo of the artist.
Spencer Tunick is planning a Toronto photo shoot and hoping for 5000 volunteer nude models. This article has three photos from Tunick's 2001 Montreal photo shoot. Priceless quote from Tunick about his working methods: "When they're nude, people really want to listen to your instructions." (Oct 2002)
REFERENCE
I-20 Gallery maintains a comprehensive listing of Spencer Tunick's exhibitions, writings and videos as well as articles about his work.
I-20 Gallery
