Thousands of Mexicans strip for Tunick

[nifocinphx]

"A RECORD 18,000 people took off their clothes to pose for US photographic artist Spencer Tunick in Mexico City's Zocalo square, the heart of the ancient Aztec empire."

News story link -
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...92-401,00.html

News photos link -
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/se...&c=news_photos

nifocinphx

[nifocinphx]

"A RECORD 18,000 people took off their clothes to pose for US photographic artist Spencer Tunick in Mexico City's Zocalo square, the heart of the ancient Aztec empire."

News story link -
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...92-401,00.html

News photos link -
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/se...&c=news_photos

nifocinphx

[fredm74]

18 thousand nude people? WOW, that's amazing.

quote:

Originally posted by nifocinphx:
"A RECORD 18,000 people took off their clothes to pose for US photographic artist Spencer Tunick in Mexico City's Zocalo square, the heart of the ancient Aztec empire."

News story link -
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...92-401,00.html

News photos link -
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/se...&c=news_photos

nifocinphx

[NakedGary]

nifocinphx

Good "Nudes in the News" story.

Thanks
.

[nakedjohn]

AOL even has a poll on it, I am curious what the outcome will be.

[nudeM]

Wow, that's incredible. 18,000 naked people, all for one photo shoot. Can't wait for him to do a shoot somewhere closeby so I could attend one.

[NudeAl]

What I find most incredible about the whole thing is that this is in a country that has not embraced nudity in any way. I mean the culture does not promote in any way nudism. Men almost never wear shorts unless on vacation women, don't were short skirts or revealing clothing. There is a strong sense of shame about the human body. That intrigues me, how did 18,000 of their citizens find the courage to doff their clothes for this event? Does it somehow signal that the attitudes about nudity are changing? Does this mean we will see nudism taking off in that coutry? It could and it might be an interesting development. If the tourist industry there embraces this idea it might mean we have new and interesting places to visit.

[missouriboy]

My earlier comment about this, from the other thread on this topic...

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U.S. artist Spencer Tunick will fill Mexico City's Zocalo square ... with thousands of naked Mexicans

Hey, that's great. I had always heard that the Mexican people were religiously averse to public nudity. If this comes off, then such lore would have some new input to consider...

Well, it looks like it came off all right. In spades!

[shomymojo]

I love it...Tunick is a genius...

[Nu]

Amazing numbers.

A whole bunch of people introduced to the nudist environment.
Not all will continue, but many will look for opportunity to feel this free again.

[rone]

That's neat! I wish I could have been there. I wonder how nany people he would get in Chicago.

[Bobx23456]

FOX news is running the story on its afternoon report complete with photos of the crowd of 20,000 naked pelple.

Bob

[hm0504]

quote:

Originally posted by NudeAl:
What I find most incredible about the whole thing is that this is in a country that has not embraced nudity in any way. I mean the culture does not promote in any way nudism. Men almost never wear shorts unless on vacation women, don't were short skirts or revealing clothing. There is a strong sense of shame about the human body. That intrigues me, how did 18,000 of their citizens find the courage to doff their clothes for this event? Does it somehow signal that the attitudes about nudity are changing? Does this mean we will see nudism taking off in that coutry? It could and it might be an interesting development. If the tourist industry there embraces this idea it might mean we have new and interesting places to visit.

I think we may be seeing in Mexico much what we saw in Quebec with its "Quiet Revolution". One aspect of Quebec's Quiet Revolution was the almost sudden transformation of a society ruled by an extremely strict and repressive Roman Catholic church into a very secular, very free, very wonderful culture.

A similar thing may also be happening in Ireland from what I hear.

[Davin]

This story was also featured in today's Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...AR2007050601045.html

[oldbob]

quote:

Originally posted by hm0504:

quote:

Originally posted by NudeAl:
What I find most incredible about the whole thing is that this is in a country that has not embraced nudity in any way. I mean the culture does not promote in any way nudism. Men almost never wear shorts unless on vacation women, don't were short skirts or revealing clothing. There is a strong sense of shame about the human body. That intrigues me, how did 18,000 of their citizens find the courage to doff their clothes for this event? Does it somehow signal that the attitudes about nudity are changing? Does this mean we will see nudism taking off in that coutry? It could and it might be an interesting development. If the tourist industry there embraces this idea it might mean we have new and interesting places to visit.

I think we may be seeing in Mexico much what we saw in Quebec with its "Quiet Revolution". One aspect of Quebec's Quiet Revolution was the almost sudden transformation of a society ruled by an extremely strict and repressive Roman Catholic church into a very secular, very free, very wonderful culture.

A similar thing may also be happening in Ireland from what I hear.

Here is a link to a National Public Radio story the uses the Tunick shoot to lead into a report on how liberal Mexico City is becoming.

Bob