One performance and installation artist who focuses on the scenery and other people rather than himself is Spencer Tunick. Tunick was born January 1, 1967 and is best known for his installations featuring large numbers of nude people posed in artistic formations situated in urban famous landmarks all over the world. He has also done some work outside the mainstream city area in woodland and beaches along with individuals and small groups. One thing that I did not know was that he is the subject of three documentaries on HBO, Naked States, naked World, and Positively Naked. The people who become the art are all volunteers whom in return receive a limited edition photo. This raises the question of the type of people who would voluntarily poses naked along with hundreds or thousands of other people for the world to see. However, when one looks at Tunick’s work, the art does not focus on the individuals, rather the new picture that these nudes create. His artwork does not judge the individuals appearance because it is not about specific individuals, rather a larger group and free in a scene left for interpretation.

His early work started when he was in London. He took a picture of a nude at a bus stop. In 1992, Tunick began documenting live nudes in public locations such as New York focusing on individuals or small groups. These works were more intimate than the large scale pieces that he currently known for. His work grew and by 1994 he had organized 65 site related installations in international major cities such as, Cork, Dublin, London, Melbourne, Rome, Sydney, San Sebastian and Amsterdam. In 2003, Spencer Tunick photographed 7,000 nudes in Barcelona and in 2007, completed his largest installation of 18,000 in Mexico City. Tunick photographs these people is different positions such as standing up, lying down, and on their knees. Tunick had to time his photographs right because he had to work with the landscape and the different lighting and sun glare that occurred.

One installation that I find interesting is the one on the Aletsch Glacier on August 18, 2007 where he uses 600 nude people to create a living sculpture intended to draw attention to global warming and the shrinking of the world’s glaciers. The temperature was about 10 degrees Celsius and he followed with an installation in Miami Beach in October. His lasts work was on March 1, 2010 at the Sydney Opera House in Australia. This was his first large sale installation in Sydney and was carried out as part of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Spencer Tunick stated, "A body is a living entity. It represents life, freedom, sensuality, and it is a mechanism to carry out our thoughts. A body is always beautiful to me. It depends on the individual work and what I do with it and what kind of idea lies behind it — if age matters or not. But in my group works, the only difference is how far people can go if it rains, snows etc.” I think that Tunick is an artist who is unique and has a mind that captures beauty with creative meaning behind it.