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Article: I stripped for Spencer Tunick

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The Independent (London, England)
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September 6, 2008
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He's the artist who gets people to undress in the name of art. Our correspondent bared all for him

I would like to think it was my passion for the arts that led me to strip naked with 150 strangers and jump into a heated swimming pool on a rooftop in east London. We were the volunteers who had agreed to be photographed by the (fully clothed) artist Spencer Tunick for his latest "live" installation.

But as I bobbed among the swell of naked bodies, I wondered if this was art, pornography, or just rampant exhibitionism. Whatever its definition, I had disrobed on the roof of the private members' club Shoreditch House, a former warehouse, at about the same time that most of the country was ...

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