About 18,000 people posed nude on May 6 for US photographer Spencer Tunick in Mexico City's Zocalo Square, a new record for the American artist known for snapping his subjects in the buff.
Thousands of naked volunteers formed a giant mosaic of flesh for Tunick, who far exceeded his own previous record of 7,000 nude models set in Barcelona, Spain.
He told reporters "all eyes are looking south from the United States to Mexico City to see how a country can be free and treat the human body with happiness and not as pornography or as a crime."
Photo: EPA
According to a preliminary count by organizers, more than 18,000 people participated in the photo shoot held in the city's vast Zocalo Square, the third largest in the world.
Tunick had the throng of volunteers, which included a broad sample of ages and backgrounds, pose in the fetal position and give a salute to an imaginary flag within sight of the capital's main cathedral and National Palace.
"It was a work of art, a political statement and at the same time an act of love with our bodies," said university student Juan Lagos.
It took Tunick's associates five years to secure permission for the shoot in which the Roman Catholic cathedral on the square and the Mexican flag will not appear.
Tunick has carried out similar photo sessions in Belgium, France, Australia, Britain, Canada and the US.
In 1994 he was arrested in Manhattan after a nude model posed for him in broad daylight. It was one of five times he has been arrested in New York since 1992, though charges were dropped in each case.(AFP)
五月六日在墨西哥市的中央廣場，約一萬八千人為美國攝影師史賓塞．突尼克寬衣解帶，刷新了這位美國藝術家的裸體攝影人數紀錄。
成千上萬名自願裸體者為突尼克組成了一幅巨型的人體拼貼畫。突尼克遠遠超越了之前在西班牙巴塞隆納所創下的七千位裸體模特兒紀錄。
他告訴媒體記者︰「所有的眼光都從美國朝南方的墨西哥市聚焦，看一個國家如何以開放快樂的角度看待人體，而非色情或犯罪。」
根據主辦單位的初步估算，逾一萬八千人參加此次在中央廣場的攝影計畫。墨西哥中央廣場是全球第三大廣場。
突尼克吸引了大批志願者，年齡層與背景廣泛，他們擺出胎兒姿勢，向眺望可及的墨西哥大教堂與皇宮的想像旗幟致敬。
大學生胡安．拉哥斯說︰「這是一件藝術品，一項政治宣言，同時也是熱愛身體的行為。」
突尼克的同僚歷時五年才得到在羅馬天主教大教堂廣場上拍攝的許可，但墨西哥國旗則不可入鏡。
突尼克已在比利時、法國、澳洲、英國、加拿大與美國拍過類似畫面。
一九九四年突尼克因光天化日下在曼哈頓拍攝裸體模特兒而被捕。一九九二年以來他在紐約已被捕五次，不過每次皆獲不起訴處分。
（法新社/翻譯︰賴美君）
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