Manchester Goes Naked for Art Charity and Spencer Tunick

[Danee]

Hundreds of volunteers have stripped off and posed naked for a Spencer Tunick photo-shoot -- to pay homage to the work of LS Lowry.

As part of an up-coming exhibition at The Lowry gallery, Tunick is photographing mass groups of nude models in eight different locations across Manchester and Salford.

The first photos were taken over the weekend at a park in Salford with around 500 people of all shapes and sizes stripping off for the pictures, more than 4,000 applied to take part.

Tunick says the 'Everyday People' photos will capture the movement of everyday people and reflect the work of artist LS Lowry… but naked.

Michael Simpson, from The Lowry, said: "I think Lowry would really like it because his whole mission for him was to paint ordinary, everyday people going around their daily lives.

"The people who feature in this project are doing something extraordinary, with no clothes on, but they are just ordinary people, all different colours and shapes and sizes.

"He would like the fact that it is not high-brow or pretentious, just ordinary people. He would be amused, even a bit bemused probably."

From: http://newslite.tv/2010/05/03/hundreds-strip-naked-in-tribut.html



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Manchester Goes Naked for Art Charity and Spencer Tunick

MANCHESTER, UK – Five hundred people got naked in the frigid air of an early Manchester morning this past Sunday. They posed for the lens of celebrated nude photographer Spencer Tunick. Four thousand had applied to participate originally, but this wasn’t about quantity as in many of Tunick’s past shoots which sometimes involved over ten thousand nude volunteer models.

Tunick was commissioned by the Lowry art museum in Salford, near Manchester, which is named after the famous local artist L. S. Lowry, in an effort to raise funds for the non-profit institution. The project called for Tunick to snap photos whose composition would be reminiscent of Lowry’s trademark work, which portrayed ordinary people going about about their ordinary lives. In this case, the subjects weren’t so ordinary for their nakedness, not a typical situation in Manchester!

One rule in a Tunick shoot is that volunteers must not have visible tattoos or they must be placed far in the back of the scene. Eyeglasses must be removed as well, the photographer wanting his subjects to appear as natural as possible. Tunick had wanted to use the Manchester United football stadium as a backdrop for one of the four installments of this shoot, but the team refused to permit it, citing fears that so many people would damage the field.

From: http://www.nudistday.com/article/manchester-goes-naked-for-art-charity-and-spencer-tunick.html