Nudes Will Converge in Buffalo for Photo
AFP via Yahoo | 7.8.2004
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Photographer Spencer Tunick plans to put hundreds of live nudes in the city's old art deco train station Aug. 15 and capture the moment on film.
"The Central Terminal installation will be different from every one I've done in the past," Tunick said in a statement released by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The gallery has four of his large-format photographs in the exhibit "Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture."
"Rather than working in a flourishing environment, we'll be in a space that thrived decades ago, but still very much wants to be alive despite years of neglect and deterioration," Tunick said. "The people represent that hope. The bodies will evoke issues of rebirth and longevity."
Gallery director Louis Grachos invited him to tour Buffalo's architectural landmarks earlier this year, hoping to interest Tunick in staging a nude performance work in Buffalo.
The former railroad station was bought in 1997 by the Central Terminal Restoration Corp., which has spent $2 million to fix it up. Corporation president Russell Pawlak called the nude photo installation "an unmatched opportunity to showcase Buffalo's beloved art deco masterpiece" and to tell the story of "the hope, memories and affection that fill this empty building."
Those who want to fill the building Aug. 15 can register at www.albrightknox.org/tunick.
In June, Tunick snapped photos of 2,750 shivering nudes at a park behind the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum along Lake Erie in Cleveland as temperatures hovered around 50 degrees.
That set a North American record for the largest group of naked people in a photograph, topping Montreal's 2,500.
AFP via Yahoo | 7.8.2004
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Photographer Spencer Tunick plans to put hundreds of live nudes in the city's old art deco train station Aug. 15 and capture the moment on film.
"The Central Terminal installation will be different from every one I've done in the past," Tunick said in a statement released by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The gallery has four of his large-format photographs in the exhibit "Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture."
"Rather than working in a flourishing environment, we'll be in a space that thrived decades ago, but still very much wants to be alive despite years of neglect and deterioration," Tunick said. "The people represent that hope. The bodies will evoke issues of rebirth and longevity."
Gallery director Louis Grachos invited him to tour Buffalo's architectural landmarks earlier this year, hoping to interest Tunick in staging a nude performance work in Buffalo.
The former railroad station was bought in 1997 by the Central Terminal Restoration Corp., which has spent $2 million to fix it up. Corporation president Russell Pawlak called the nude photo installation "an unmatched opportunity to showcase Buffalo's beloved art deco masterpiece" and to tell the story of "the hope, memories and affection that fill this empty building."
Those who want to fill the building Aug. 15 can register at www.albrightknox.org/tunick.
In June, Tunick snapped photos of 2,750 shivering nudes at a park behind the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum along Lake Erie in Cleveland as temperatures hovered around 50 degrees.
That set a North American record for the largest group of naked people in a photograph, topping Montreal's 2,500.
