Observe the two photos on the left, from our private collection. Which one, would you say, is a nudist photo?
If you answered both, you’re right…and you’re wrong! While both are lovely photos using the same female model (and yours truly in one!), and can be published (we just did!) in this or any other nudist-oriented [...]
It was two years ago in December on this site that we reported that the Nekkid Monday Band was to play no more. The talented but dispirited nudist funk group, led by Shane Gentry, had decided then that they lacked support from the community and would seek fame and fortune as musicians of the textile [...]
NEW YORK CITY – According to John Ordover, organizer of last week’s nude improv comedy in Manhattan, the show was a resounding success, filling-up every one of the tiny theater’s 39 seats with nude patrons. The four comedians, two men and two women, were also all naked on stage, as was Ordover, acting as emcee. [...]
Just as black Americans saw their culture exploited in cheesy movies, so did nudists become the subject of many low-budget films aimed at titillating the trench coat crowd. The golden era of such “nudexploitation” was in the early 60s, a time when pornography wasn’t so easily obtained. The “nudist” movie genre was championed by the [...]
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VIENNA, AUSTRIA – May 11, 2008 – This morning, photographer Spencer Tunick completed yet another installation, this time in a football stadium in Vienna. 1,840 nude volunteers participated, short of his goal of 2,008 for this montage which celebrates the European cup taking place next month in the same stadium. His photos will be exhibited [...]
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Phèdre is a 17th century tragedy written by Racine, one of the great French playwrights. As such, the classic has been acted-out in front of audiences thousands of times, but never like the current version running at the Salle du Faubourg, in Geneva, Switzerland: The five actors are completely naked throughout the performance.
Not only [...]
New York native Spencer Tunick continues his long term project of photographing massive numbers of nudes in one take, this time taking to the streets of Cork (June 17) and Dublin (June 21), two major cities in Ireland.
Tunick has already started his volunteer model recruitment drive via a website dedicated to the event ((www.spencertunickireland.ie). Public [...]
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Friday, April 18, 2008 – A woman carrying an infant casually removes all her clothing in the middle of a popular central Buenos Aires square and ambles about, oblivious to the stares of the crowds.
The woman was none other than “Avril X”, as she calls herself, who has repeated this scene on many other [...]
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MEXICO CITY – A nudist group based in Mexico City claims to have organized a nude visit to the city’s University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUCA), in conjunction with a Spencer Tunick exhibit taking place there. Saturday, November 27, from 7:30 pm through 9 pm, anyone visiting the display of photos Tunick took earlier this [...]
The famous American photographer of nude multitudes has said that he hopes to do further artistic installations in both Mexico and Venezuela, two Latin-American countries that were particularly receptive to his ongoing project. Mexico City was the scene of his record photo shoot, involving 18,000 naked volunteers, a number which he doubts he can surpass [...]
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