Spencer Tunick, the
troublemaking American photographer famous for shooting large numbers of naked
people in interesting places……
Nudes kick off German
opera season in Spencer Tunick installation
Hundreds of naked
volunteers celebrated the beginning of the 2012 Munich
Opera Festival by recreating scenes from Richard Wagner’s opera ‘Der Ring des
Nibelungen’ in several locations around Munich.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/nudes-kick-german-opera-season-spencer-tunick-installation-article-1.1101213
Naked valkyries?
Nudes open German opera season
Spencer Tunick, born
January 1, 1967. is an American photographer. Tunick is best known for
organizing large-scale nude shoots. Since 1994 he has photographed over 75
human installations around the world.
Spencer Tunick was
born in Middletown, Orange County, New
York into a Jewish family. His father Earl owned a
keychain photo-viewer franchise in the Catskills. In 1986, he visited London, where he took
photographs of a nude at a bus stop and of scores of nudes in Alleyn's School's
Lower School Hall in Dulwich, Southwark. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Emerson College in 1988.
In 1992, Tunick began
documenting live nudes in public locations in New York through video and photographs. His
early works from this period focus more on a single nude individual or small
groups of nudes. Tunick cites 1994, when he posed and photographed 28 nude
people in front of the United Nations building in midtown Manhattan, as a
turning point in his career: "It all started there, moving my work from
just photography into installation and performance photography," he says
Since then, he has organized and photographed over 65 temporary site-related
installations in the United States and abroad.
Tunick's philosophy
is that "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." After gathering his subjects together, Tunick grades them by
gender, long hair, age or other characteristics. Registration for modeling on
his website includes questions about skin tone. A colour chart shows seven
boxes ranging from stark white to baby-powder pink and dark chocolate. In his
work, he plays off different flesh tones or groups people of the same colour.
Tunick is also interested in the juxtaposition between the organic and the
mechanical, and often chooses famous buildings or unusual structures as his
backdrop.
Das Rheingold,Entrance of the Gods - Wagner Symphonic
Syntheses - Stokowski.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q3Xlu7G7mM&feature=related
The Rhinegold, Part I, The Ring of Nibelung, Wagner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haO3BeuE_0s
The Rhinegold, Part II, The Ring of Nibelung, Wagner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSFixn1ny3w&feature=relmfu
The Rhinegold, Part III, The Ring of Nibelung, Wagner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKN_eEqvUMI&feature=relmfu
The Valkyrie, Part I, The Ring of Nibelung, Wagner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-3sbID3p0s&feature=relmfu
The Valkyrie, Part II, The Ring of Nibelung, Wagner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrmbye7gcs&feature=relmfu
The Ring - Ride of the Valkyries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTS-PMXyE4Q&feature=related
Siegfried, Part I, The Ring of Nibelung, Wagner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxdc_SfITS4&feature=relmfu
Siegfried, Part II, The Ring of Nibelung, Wagner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ivz4Upi78&feature=relmfu
Twilight of Gods, Part I, The Ring of Nibelung, Wagner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Z-T8WUW3I&feature=relmfu
Twilight of Gods, Part II,The Ring of Nibelung, Wagner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k42Rd3dVz30&feature=relmfu
Twilight of Gods,Part III,The Ring of Nibelung, Wagner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31e54bS1N5o&feature=relmfu