1. Spencer Tunick is an American photographer best known for organizing large-scale nude shoots.
29 Facts About Spencer Tunick
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Spencer Tunick was born in Middletown, Orange County, New York into a Jewish family, being the fourth generation of photographers.
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Spencer Tunick's grandfather was a photographer of high profile politicians in the United Nations.
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Spencer Tunick's paternal grandmother is a relative of Martin Indyk, the former US ambassador to Israel.
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In 1992, Spencer Tunick began documenting live nudes in public locations in New York through video and photographs.
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Spencer Tunick cites 1994, when he posed and photographed 28 nude people in front of the headquarters of the United Nations 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.
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Spencer Tunick is interested in the juxtaposition between the organic and the mechanical, and often chooses famous buildings or unusual structures as his backdrop.
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Since 1992, Spencer Tunick has traveled the world, capturing both individuals and groups in the nude.
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Spencer Tunick is the subject of three HBO documentaries, Naked States, Naked World, and Positively Naked.
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Spencer Tunick is the subject of the COVID-19 pandemic documentary film Stay Apart Together, directed by Nicole Vanden Broeck and released in 2023, in which Tunick reinvents his photography "to find a way to bring everyone together while staying apart".
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Later, in September 2001, Spencer Tunick photographed 400 nude volunteers in Greenwich, London, each side of Cutty Sark, and then in a nearby street.
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On March 19,2006, Spencer Tunick photographed 1,500 nudes in Caracas, having people standing up, lying down, and on their knees beside the main Simon Bolivar statue.
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In 2007 Spencer Tunick was commissioned by the Dream Amsterdam Foundation to realize art projects for the artistic event Dream Amsterdam.
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An accompanying documentary Naked in Mexico: Spencer Tunick was filmed on, and around, the date of the photo shoot.
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Spencer Tunick followed this installation with one at the Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach.
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Spencer Tunick announced plans to take photographs in Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna with 2,008 naked football fans in the run-up to the Euro 2008 tournament.
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On June 17,2008 Spencer Tunick carried out an installation in the grounds of Blarney Castle in County Cork with about 1200 people.
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On October 3,2009, Spencer Tunick performed another installation in collaboration with Greenpeace, this time to draw attention to the effect climate change is having on French wine production.
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On March 1,2010, Spencer Tunick carried out a series of installations titled "The Base" on the Sydney Opera House Forecourt and inside the Opera House.
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In May 2010, Spencer Tunick was commissioned by The Lowry to work with 1000 people in five secret locations.
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Spencer Tunick continued to the International Street Theatre Festival in Aurillac, France, where he had been invited to hold an installation for its 25th anniversary.
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On September 17,2011, Spencer Tunick photographed a large group of naked volunteers at the Dead Sea.
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On June 23,2012, Spencer Tunick photographed a group of naked volunteers in Munich, Germany.
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Spencer Tunick was interpreting scenes from the Richard Wagner opera "Der Ring des Nibelungen".
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On June 4,2016, Spencer Tunick photographed a group of naked volunteers in Bogota, Colombia.
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On July 9,2016, Spencer Tunick photographed 3,200 people wearing only blue paint, in Kingston upon Hull, UK.
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The gathering was the largest of any of Spencer Tunick's UK-based projects to date.
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On July 18,2016, Spencer Tunick photographed 100 nude women, in Cleveland, Ohio, where the Republican National Convention was being hosted.
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In November 2022, Spencer Tunick photographed 2500 volunteers dney's Bondi Beach.