Nudes play out bar scene for art

[nifocinphx]

Nudes play out bar scene for art
BBC News, updated Sunday, 23 July 2006, 13:31 GMT.



More than 30 people have bared all in a Glasgow bar.

The volunteers were posing in Bobar in the west end for Glasgow photographer Alistair Devine.

But instead of everyone being in the same position, as in photographer Spencer Tunick's pictures, each nude was given a bar scene role to play.

Event spokesman Oli Norman said: "There was no embarrassment. Everyone was incredibly comfortable. It looked totally natural."

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[nifocinphx]

Nudes play out bar scene for art
BBC News, updated Sunday, 23 July 2006, 13:31 GMT.

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More than 30 people have bared all in a Glasgow bar.

The volunteers were posing in Bobar in the west end for Glasgow photographer Alistair Devine.

But instead of everyone being in the same position, as in photographer Spencer Tunick's pictures, each nude was given a bar scene role to play.

Event spokesman Oli Norman said: "There was no embarrassment. Everyone was incredibly comfortable. It looked totally natural." </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

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[Matt King]

if they wanted someone in Greensboro NC I would definitely sign up. oh and by the way if a talk show host ex Oprah did a nude show would the people respond differently?

[Jason Lee]

The photographer received interest from more than 400 volunteers.

[hm0504]

Thanks for posting this. Personally, I'd like to see more of this kind of creative art.

If you happen to be in Ottawa between now and October 1, it might be worth checking out "Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre" at the National Gallery of Canada. From
http://national.gallery.ca/english/default_3651.htm
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> The practice “staging” photographs continued into the 20th century, a century otherwise dominated by the rise of “straight” photography and the ascendance of the documentary photographer. So-called “Pictorialist” photographers such as William Mortensen and Harold Kells used themes from literature and history as a way to showcase their photographic nudes.
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Actually, on this topic, can anyone find an online link to actual work by Harold Kells, one of the photographers mentioned in my excerpt?