A 'gumball machine' of coloured, naked bodies in Melbourne's big nude shoot

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Five-hundred people will strip naked in the dead of Melbourne's winter and cover themselves in coloured paint for the first of a series of photo shoots by world famous artist Spencer Tunick on Sunday.

The New York-based photographer is promising an “exciting, exhilarating, quick, messy, coloured lather-up work of art” that is reminiscent of a “gumball machine”.

“Everyone will be painted different colours and it will reflect the graffiti covered area” of the secret location chosen for the event in Chapel Street Precinct, he said, which has commissioned the work.

Spencer Tunick on creating nude art

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"The people that are coming are just absolutely brave, insane, wonderful people."

Famed photographer @SpencerTunick reveals how he's going to approach his upcoming nude shoot in Melbourne, and what his favourite location has been

World's Most Famous Photographer of Mass Nudes

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You could say some of the crew were REALLY trying to make a good impression on nude photographer @SpencerTunick... #Studio10

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He's with artist Spencer Tunick, the artist being the nude photo shoot in Melbourne.

He's in Melbourne for a nude photo installation, speaking with Reuben Kaye

He's looking at some artwork by David Bromley as part of the Provocare Festival in Melbourne.

'I'm tired of trying to hide it': A bold move to bare all for Spencer Tunick photoshoot

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Carly Taylor has always hidden her body from the world. Her former partners had never seen her naked.

So disrobing in public next week in the company of a crowd of strangers for New York photographer Spencer Tunick's return to Melbourne is a huge leap for the South Yarra resident.

Ms Taylor, 36, of South Yarra, has battled poor body image for many years.

Mass nude photo shoot going ahead after supermarket u-turn

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Hundreds of naked people are set to gather on a chilly rooftop in Australia in July after a supermarket dropped its objections to a mass nude photo shoot by renowned New York artist Spencer Tunick.

Woolworths had refused permission due to fears that a photo shoot in its rooftop car park would disrupt its busy Saturday morning trade, but gave the go-ahead after organizers changed the date.

"We're very supportive of the Provocaré Festival of the Arts and the Chapel Street community in which we operate," a Woolworths spokesperson said, adding that the festival organizers' flexibility with timing convinced the supermarket to allow the photoshoot to go ahead.

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Melbourne's mass nude photoshoot is set to go ahead after a big backdown by Woolworths.

Woolworths reverses ban on Spencer Tunick mass nude photoshoot in Prahran carpark

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WOOLIES has reversed its ban on world-renowned artist Spencer Tunick to stage his mass nude photoshoot on its carpark rooftop in Prahran.

Tunick, whose nudes have graced the Sydney Opera House and world heritage sites, wanted to photograph those willing to strip off for art’s sake during Prahran’s Provocaré festival in July.

No it wasn’t too fresh for the Fresh Food People, although those willing to bare all in Melbourne’s winter might have raised as many goosebumps as eyebrows.

Woolworths Says No to Massive Nude Photo Shoot

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Early last month Broadsheet announced world-famous photographer Spencer Tunick would headline Chapel Street’s winter arts festival Provocaré. The New York State-born artist is known primarily for photographing large-scale nude shoots in public locations, sometimes featuring thousands of participants.

More than 10,000 people have so far registered interest in getting their kits off for Tunick’s shoots across the two weekends of the festival, and three locations have already been secured. The artist had hoped the rooftop car park of the Chapel Street Woolworths could be used as the final location for shooting.

“He fell in love with that location and just had a vision of what he wanted to do with it,” Chapel Street Precinct Association (CSPA) head of business Chrissie Maus tells Broadsheet.

Too cheeky? Woolworths says no to rooftop nude art

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A plan for more than 10,000 people to be naked on the roof of Woolworth's store in Melbourne has been shot down after the supermarket giant said no to a world famous artist.

The New York-based artist, Spencer Tunick, renowned for his nude pictures, wants to use the store's car park at Prahran's Chapel St precinct for his latest shoot next month, but Woolworths has refused because it did not want its customers inconvenienced.

Tunick believes the supermarket giant is trying to censor him.