A Day After Big Mexican Nude Scene, Photographer Shoots 105 Naked 'Fridas'
 Associated Press
| Lola Alvarez-Bravo
Frida Kahlo, 1952 |
Mexico City - Frida Kahlo surely would have approved.
A day after his biggest nude shoot ever, U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick on Monday photographed a group of 105 naked women resembling Kahlo, the eccentric artist known for her intensely personal paintings and often outrageous style.
The wife of muralist Diego Rivera, she was also known for her thick, black eyebrows and braided hair - features shared by the women who posed at the home-turned-museum of the painter who died in 1954.
"There were 105 Fridas, 105 women with long black hair to pay tribute to Frida Kahlo," said Marco Antonio Hernandez, Tunick's promoter.
The models were selected from the estimated 18,000 people who stripped for Tunick the previous dawn in Mexico City's vast main square.
Standing up to salute, crouching in fetal positions and lying prone on the tiles of the Zocalo plaza, the volunteers formed a sea of flesh that Tunick snapped from balconies and a small crane.
Tunick, from Brooklyn, N.Y., has become famous for photographing thousands of naked people in public settings worldwide, from London and Vienna to Buenos Aires and Buffalo, N.Y..
Previously his best turnout had been 7,000 models in Barcelona in 2003.
Kahlo's tumultuous life has inspired several plays and films, including the 2002 movie "Frida," starring Mexican actress Salma Hayek. |
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