MEXICO CITY, May 7 (UPI) — A famed photographer gathered as many as 20,000 residents of Mexico City together in the country’s capital for a nude photo shoot.
Spencer Tunick, who has made his name by rounding up citizens of cities around the world for pictorial peeks beneath their clothes, arrived in the city looking to convince 7,000 men and women to disrobe, but city officials estimate that as many as 20,000 showed up to shed their clothes for the photographer, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.
The subjects gathered in the main plaza of the city, near the Metropolitan Cathedral in the heavily Roman Catholic area. Permission to use the area was granted by the city on the condition the cathedral not be used for any of the photographs.
“What a great moment for the Mexican art scene,” Tunick said after the shoot. “The heart of Latin America is now in Mexico.”
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