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OVER 1,700 GET NAKED IN GERMANY TO MARK OPERA SEASON OPENING
- More than 1,700 men and women have stripped naked in a German square in the latest art installation by photographer Spencer Tunick, Mirror.co.uk reported. The volunteers, painted red and gold, were arranged in lines by the American snapper in an interpretation of scenes from Richard Wagner's opera Der Ring des Nibelungen. The installation, in Munich's Max-Joseph Platz, was created to mark the opening of the 2012 Munich summer opera season. The Bavarian State Opera, which commissioned the work, said: "Tunick's installations encompass dozens, hundreds or thousands of volunteers; and his photographs are record of these events. "The individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together metamorphose into a new shape. The bodies extend into and upon the landscape, like a substance. "These grouped masses, which do not underscore sexuality, become abstractions that challenge or reconfigure one's views of nudity and privacy." Tunick first started taking pictures of nudes in public places on a visit to London in 1986. But it wasn't until 1994 that he began organising mass gatherings of naked men and women to photograph at well-known locations. Since then he has organised more than 75 such installations at places as diversre as the Sydney Opera House, the Dead Sea and Peel Park in Salford. His largest installation was in Mexico five years ago when over 18,000 people posed in Mexico City's main square the Zocalo. It eclipsed the previous record of 7,000 for a shoot in Barcelona in 2003. In 2005 he photographed 1,700 nudes on the quay and Millennium Bridge at Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead. $(document).ready(function(){ $("a[rel^='prettyPhoto']").prettyPhoto({ slideshow: 5000, autoplay_slideshow: true, show_title: false, social_tools: '' }); });
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