Spencer Tunick Is Out in the Open

It's 6 AM in Caracas, Venezuela. 1200 police and military are stationed in key locations around the perimeter of a designated area. Something highly complex yet profoundly simple is being staged. This is a race against the elements, as the sun in its full expression makes successfully photographing the scene impossible. Spencer Tunick, a 42-year-old New York-based artist, has a team of assistants and several cameras ready to shoot. Over a thousand people have gathered, ready to disrobe and pose according to Tunick's direction. The resulting photographs portray enormous groupings of unclothed human figures in repetitive poses, sitting, standing or lying adjacent to one another in a city street or spread over large areas of a landscape.
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