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Austrians pose nude for art and football
Monday, 12 May, 2008
More than 1800 Austrians have turned out to pose nude for a Spencer Tunick photo shoot at the stadium that will host the Euro 2008 final.
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Over 1,800 men and women have posed nude for US photographer Spencer Tunick in Vienna's Ernst Happel stadium, less than a month before it hosts the European football championships.
Today's photo-shoot, which lasted several hours in warm weather, drew precisely 1,840 participants.
VIDEO: watch the nude photo shoot
Organisers had hoped for a symbolic turn out of "at least 2,008" ahead of the Euro 2008 tournament.
The subjects of the artwork posed in the stands and on the pitch, before the newly-refitted stadium was to be presented to the European football governing body UEFA tomorrow.
The event was organised by Vienna's Kunsthalle museum as part of a cultural program running alongside Euro 2008.
The participants were not paid, but instead received signed pictures of the photo-shoot.
The photographs are to be displayed at the Kunsthalle, starting June 23.
New York-born Tunick is famous for large-scale nude projects, having created several installations from Mexico City to the Netherlands, Barcelona and Newcastle.
Source: AFP
Today's photo-shoot, which lasted several hours in warm weather, drew precisely 1,840 participants.
VIDEO: watch the nude photo shoot
Organisers had hoped for a symbolic turn out of "at least 2,008" ahead of the Euro 2008 tournament.
The subjects of the artwork posed in the stands and on the pitch, before the newly-refitted stadium was to be presented to the European football governing body UEFA tomorrow.
The event was organised by Vienna's Kunsthalle museum as part of a cultural program running alongside Euro 2008.
The participants were not paid, but instead received signed pictures of the photo-shoot.
The photographs are to be displayed at the Kunsthalle, starting June 23.
New York-born Tunick is famous for large-scale nude projects, having created several installations from Mexico City to the Netherlands, Barcelona and Newcastle.
Source: AFP
