{"id":813,"date":"2006-03-20T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/03\/20\/full-exposure\/"},"modified":"2006-03-20T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T18:50:09","slug":"full-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/03\/20\/full-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8202'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\ntunikk.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">CARACAS, Venezuela &#8211; More than 1,500 Venezuelans shed<br \/>\n        their clothes on a main city avenue Sunday to pose for American photographer<br \/>\n        Spencer Tunick, forming a human mosaic in front of a national symbol:<br \/>\n        a statue of independence hero Simon Bolivar.<\/p>\n<p>        As Tunick shouted commands through a megaphone, nude people of every<br \/>\n        shape, size and skin tone gathered on the avenue and stairs in front<br \/>\n        of the statue just before dawn.<\/p>\n<p>        &quot;There are some people over there with clothes, get them out of<br \/>\n        there!&quot; said<br \/>\n        Tunick, an artist from Brooklyn, N.Y., who has been documenting groups<br \/>\n        of nude people in public places around the world since 1992.<\/p>\n<p>        Occasional cheers and movements in the enthusiastic crowd made shooting<br \/>\n        tough at times, Tunick said.<\/p>\n<p>        &quot;It was difficult to work because the people were so exuberant,<br \/>\n        so it took a little bit longer, but I got what I wanted,&quot; he said<br \/>\n        after the session.<\/p>\n<p>        &quot;The body represents beauty, love and peace. There was a lot of<br \/>\n      beauty and energy in the people today.&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060319\/ap_en_ot\/venezuela_nude_photo_4\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Dear Mr. Tunick, The People&#8217;s Republic of Cambridge<br \/>\n        cordially invites you to stage your next nude photo shoot in Harvard<br \/>\n        Square.&nbsp;The contrast between the copious layers of intellectual<br \/>\n        pretentiousness and lack of clothing will be delicious. Of course, the<br \/>\n        aesthetic appeal of naked Cantabridgian flesh will compare unfavorably<br \/>\n        with that of Caracas, Brussels, Brazil and Spain, although we may give<br \/>\n        London a run for its money. May we suggest the steps of Memorial Church<br \/>\n        in Old Harvard Yard, where diplomas are traditionally awarded, as a potential<br \/>\n        shoot site&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARACAS, Venezuela &#8211; More than 1,500 Venezuelans shed their clothes on a main city avenue Sunday to pose for American photographer Spencer Tunick, forming a human mosaic in front of a national symbol: a statue of independence hero Simon Bolivar. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/03\/20\/full-exposure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}