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200 men and women pose naked in the desert of Arad
Photo: Debbie Hill / newscom / picture alliance
At least this time the models didn't have to shiver: the lowest temperature on Sunday in the Arad desert in Israel was 23 degrees, and at noon it was even 33 degrees.
Under these weather conditions, 200 people posed naked for a work of art by US artist Spencer Tunick.
The photography is part of the “Dead Sea Revival Project”, for which Tunick has been involved for a long time.
Spencer Tunick is famous for his motifs in which he drapes a multitude of naked people in landscapes or in front of buildings.
He does not see the pictures as nudes, but understands the nudes as additions to the landscape.
Since 1994, Tunick says he has organized over 100 such temporary installations with naked volunteers.
They do not receive a fee for this, but a limited print of the work of art of which they have become part.
Tunick's naked people froze on the Aletsch Glacier in 2007 to draw attention to the consequences of global warming.
His latest project is also about an environmental phenomenon: the shrinking of the unique Dead Sea.
For the third time, after 2011 and 2016, he is devoting his attention to the lake between Israel and Jordan, which is increasingly drying up.
Among other things, the campaign aims to raise awareness of a crowdfunding initiative that is used to finance a Dead Sea Museum in the city of Arad, 25 kilometers west of the Dead Sea.
The museum, in turn, is intended to help support approaches to save the water.
Its shrinkage is documented, among other things, by the various works of art by Spencer Tunick.
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