Despite the controversy about where he would shoot photographs of thousands of nude Mexicans, U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick went ahead and held his largest photo session yet this past Sunday, where he photographed a record number of 18,000 people in the Zocalo. This was followed by a smaller shoot on Monday in Coyoacan, in the home of artist Frida Kahlo. The smaller session involved 105 specially selected female participants from Sunday’s shoot. The women were chosen because of their long dark hair, which was braided a la Frida for the naked pics.

I watched some of TV Azteca’s coverage of both shoots and whatever controversy initially existed seemed to be absent in the crowds of people who lined up for hours to take part in the Zocalo session. What protests did happen were from people who were upset that they could not participate in the historic photo. Also women who participated in the large photo session did complain that other male participants were playing amateur photographers, snapping pics of the women with cell phones.

All in all it was probably a safe and wise decision for Tunick, from the borough of appropriating hipsters, Brooklyn, not to go with his original ideas of snapping pics at the Teotihuacan ruins.

Via / CNN.com and TV Azteca