Posts Tagged ‘spencer tunick’
Spencer Tunick: “I feel more comfortable in Mexico”
7:51 am By Maegan La Mala · Arts|Culture|mexico · Comments Off
20 Jan 2009
Famed U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick, known mostly for staging massive shots of naked people in public places, says he feels more comfortable working in Mexico than in the U.S. because of the open-mindedness of the people.
“Mexico made me grow as an artist, and gave me the confidence to work with more than 25,000 people,” said the New York photographer Spencer Tunick upon announcing that in April he will open an exhibition at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco [Mexico City].“In this country I feel more comfortable than in the United States because Mexicans are more open to new experiences. You can dialogue with them, something that doesn’t happen in Texas,” he said.
Back in 2007, Tunick met with opposition when he wanted to shoot at the Teotituacan ruins near Mexico City. He later opted to work in the city’s massive main square, El Zócalo, and at artist Frida Kahlo’s home, la Casa Azúl.
Tunick’s new exhibit won’t be of his typical multitudinous compositions but instead of portraits he made of individual Mexican models.
Via / Crónica
Spencer Tunick Snaps in Mexico City and at Casa Azul
10:35 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Arts|Controversia|mexico · Comments Off
8 May 2007
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.
Mexico: Get your naked bodies off our ruins
2:12 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Arts|Controversia|mexico · 3 Comments
17 Apr 2007
American photographer Spencer Tunick is famous for capturing the image of the nude masses by the thousands in locales from New York to Buenos Aires to London. His presence isn’t always welcomed by local officials, and such is the case in Mexico where his proposal to photograph a gaggle of naked Mexicans at the Teotihuacan ruins isn’t to the liking of some:
“The application has been filed and the National Anthropology and History Institute is evaluating it, but it looks like they won’t let him. It’s not the last word but they have told me it will be rejected,” Alejandro Sarabia, who runs the Teotihuacan site, told Reuters on Monday.
Last year, internet giant Yahoo!’s proposal to to communicate with extraterrestrials via a time capsule at the Teotihuacan site was ultimately rejected by the INAH, as the entity feared damage to the ruins.
According to Reuters, no matter what the final decision by the INAH might be, Tunick’s spokespeople said he will do a shoot in Mexico, either in Mexico City or Teotihuacan. So he’ll do it even without permission? I’m all for subversive art, but I’m also about preserving sacred and ancestral grounds. What do you think?
Via / Stuff.co.nz
Image via artcritical.org
Hola!
VivirLatino is a daily publication published by Mamita Mala Media, dedicated to featuring all the latest politics, culture, entertainment of interest to the diverse Latin@ diaspora.
About | Advertise with us | Contact | Twitter
blog advertising is good for you
blog advertising is good for you
- Scrying Nicki Minaj, Stupid Hoe, and #Afrofutures | Nuñez Daughter: [...] forest of things that seem to matter a lot–like  fingers waving in presidential faces [...]
- Karen: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/09/120109fa_fact_auletta [...]
- Karen: I just read this about Rubio. Let's see the GOP make him a VP nominee. LOL http://www.democraticu [...]
- Martes Media Minute : Roe v. Wade Anniversary, Medicaid Mama y Midwife Victory, Cervical Cancer Awareness month, & Mala’s Mami Closeup, | VivirLatino: [...] last week’s liveblog of a conversation on cervical cancer and Latin@s, Bianca Laureano s [...]
- Emiliano: thanks for your reviews. i feel like you tell it like you really feel. [...]
- Sexy Singing and Scary Primetime TV Latino Stereotypes : Glee & The River
- Explaining the Sudden Hiatus
- Eye on the Florida Primary : Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Most Anti-Immigrant of All?
- Live Blog/Tweet of Obama’s SOTU Address Tonight 8:45 EST
- Martes Media Minute : Roe v. Wade Anniversary, Medicaid Mama y Midwife Victory, Cervical Cancer Awareness month, & Mala’s Mami Closeup,
- VL Pelicula Giveaway!
- Today at 1 pm EST : Conversation on Latinas and Cervical Cancer
- Today in Latin@ History : Birthday of Martha P. Cotera
- Mistaking Immigration Proposals for Policy in an Election Year
- Casa Blanca Camino 2012: DREAMing of Hypocrisy in Iowa
