Project initiator and social entrepreneur Ari Leon Fruchter aimed to draw world attention to the mineral-rich lake’s rapidly receding water levels. He is also launching a new photo exhibit in Tel Aviv.
#Dead sea naked models series#
Naked crowds in public places have made American photographer Spencer Tunick world famous, but his plan for an installation featuring hundreds of nude Israelis floating in the Dead Sea has encountered money problems and resistance from some political groups. It’s been a decade since American photographer Spencer Tunick made waves with his Naked Sea series showing 1,200 people in the buff at the Dead Sea’s Mineral Beach. But these 1,000 Israelis bared all in a photo shoot at the Dead Sea to raise awareness of the diminishing water levels. On the evening of September 16, an undisclosed number of buses will take an undisclosed number of people to the Dead Sea, where they will prepare for a mass nude photo shoot by artist Spencer Tunick the following morning. September 12, 2016, Updated February 14 American photographer Spencer Tunick, best known in Israel for his large-scale nude shoot at the Dead Sea in 2011, is back in town to again drum up environmental awareness for this hypersaline lake at the lowest point on earth. He would like to show his nude multitude floating in the extreme buoyancy of the ultra-saline water, and covered in its famous health-giving black mud.Jump to navigation Israel resists Spencer Tunick's plans for a naked Dead Sea shoot Tunick depicted more than 1,000 nude models a decade ago on the shores of the salty Dead Sea, which is receding at about a metre a year. The artist, who is Jewish, has not yet decided what his Dead Sea installation will feature. World Now Playing Naked models take over Dead Sea for new Spencer Tunick photo Octo8:03AM NewsDNARaw Hundreds of models, wearing only white paint, have descended on one of the world’s most famous spots for a naked photo shoot.
Tunick and his eight assistants need $60,000 to pay the logistics costs of an installation and photo shoot in September or October at the lowest point on Earth, where the Dead Sea is drying up at the rate of one meter (three feet) a year. “But it’s the naked body in a public space,” he said, hinting at disapproval of his art in the Jewish state. Naked models take over Dead Sea for new Spencer Tunick photo Octo8:03AM NewsDNARaw Hundreds of models, wearing only white paint, have descended on one of the world’s most famous spots for a naked photo shoot.
Video, 00:02:26 Hundreds of people strip naked by the Dead Sea. The artist has previously photographed mass nude gatherings in Melbourne, Australia and as part of a protest against Donald Trump outside the. More than 1,000 floating nude Israelis pose for US art photographer Spencer Tunick's first Middle East mass shoot in the Dead Sea, the lowest spot on earth which experts warn could dry out by 2050 unless urgent steps are taken to halt its demise. “It’s very insignificant money,” the artist told a Tel Aviv news conference. Hundreds of people strip naked by the Dead Sea. Spencer Tunick is no stranger to nude photoshoots. His photographs of hundreds of naked men and women of “all religions, shapes and sizes” in locations such as the Sydney Opera House and Switzerland’s Aletsch Glacier have won critical acclaim and attracted fans worldwide. On the evening of September 16, an undisclosed number of buses will take an undisclosed number of people to the Dead Sea, where they will prepare for a mass nude photo shoot by artist Spencer Tunick the following morning.
Artist Spencer Tunick talks to members of the media as after photographing naked volunteers in front of the Sydney Opera House March 1, 2010.
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