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American photographer

Spencer Tunick is an American photographer best known for organizing large-scale nude shoots.

Early life and education

Spencer Tunick was born in Middletown, Orange County, New York into a Jewish family, being the fourth generation of photographers. His grandfather was a photographer of high profile politicians in the United Nations.^{[citation needed]} His father, Earle David Tunick, founded Resort Photo Service, a photography business that photographed private events as well as those of famous politicians, singers, actors, and athletes.^{[citation needed]} His paternal grandmother is a relative of Martin Indyk, the former US ambassador to Israel.^{[citation needed]}

Tunick studied at the New York Military Academy, and later earned a degree in Fine Arts from Emerson College in 1988.^{[citation needed]}

Photography

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 headquarters of the United Nations in midtown Manhattan, as a turning point in his

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Authors

• Nausikaä El-Mecky Heidelberg University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2018.i11.336

Keywords:

Photography, Spencer Tunick

Abstract

This article examines renowned yet controversial American photographer Spencer Tunick, whose work has led to numerous arrests, a high profile court-case and finally, success abroad. Spencer Tunick’s photographic works, which he calls installations, have brought him great renown, but his work was and continues to be hazardous, exposing the unstable rules about art and nudity in public space. Masses of naked bodies populate his works, standing up, lying down, painted blue, lifted up, holding hands, in public spaces all over the world. Tunick is not interested in sexualised imagery: the boundaries he wants to push against are political. Ironically, it was his high-profile court-case win in 2000 to photograph a group of nude persons outdoors in New York that led to increased censorship, and  –more fortuitously– to international success. Using archival records, inte