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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780767041447 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 0767041445 Label: New Video Group Manufacturer: New Video Group Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Video Group Release Date: July 30, 2002 Running Time: 80 minutes Sales Rank: 43086 Studio: New Video Group Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Description: In a five month journey photographing nudes in every state, the critically acclaimed film Naked States follows artist Spencer Tunick’s quest to photograph nudes in public settings across the country.
Naked States is a visual American odyssey that brings us closer to the truth about our bodies and our freedom as related to the sensitive issues of censorship and nudity.
Bear witness to some of America’s most fascinating subcultures, from the country’s largest biker rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, to the Mojave Desert’s eccentric Burningman Festival, to a huge outdoor Phish concert. Here Tunick has no idea if he will get 10 people or 1,000 people to pose.
Along Tunick’s journey hear the stories of the ordinary men and women who decide to pose nude in public. In Naked States, art, politics, body image, and American culture come together in some very unexpected ways.
Amazon.com: Art, publicity, and "the politics of nudity" go under the cultural microscope in this award-winning documentary. Photographer Spencer Tunick specializes in nudes--large groups of them, usually in public places. Naked States follows Tunick from one of his many arrests in New York through a national tour in a quest to get a nude photo in each state and a gallery showing at the end of it. Naked States combines footage of Tunick (at times uninhibitedly whiny) at work with interviews with his subjects and the occasional wry comment by his girlfriend. Tunick's images are undeniably compelling, as are many of his subjects' reasons for stripping off and posing. Most interesting are the sequences involving a genial Burning Man crowd and some surprisingly uncooperative nudists. The film contains, obviously, quite a bit of full-frontal nudity, but none of it is eroticized--an interesting phenomenon in itself. Well worth watching. --Ali Davis
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Overexposure
Spencer Tunick set out to photograph naked people in all 50 states, and completed his mission in five months. This HBO documentary that runs a little over an hour records his journey. The photographs range all the way from single individuals and a few people together to as many as a thousand nudes in one photo shoot. Mr. Tunick takes in a biker rally, a Burning Man celebration, a meeting of naturalists-- apparently the group that was the least cooperative-- and a Phish concert.
Some of the photographs are quite good; others are trite and far too cute and gimmicky. What is so interesting ... Read More
Rating: - naked but not naughty
I purchased both this DVD and Naked World after participating in a Spencer Tunick photo shoot in Miami Beach,FL this past Oct. 2007.
It was interesting to see how far he has come in being accepted in the art world. The photos he takes are not pornographic.
I also found it funny that he had such a hard time in the biker setting. Bikers are thought of as being very permissive and when he was trying to find a model to pose I thought he was going to get punched in the face!
He does not want people with "perfect" bodies as his models just every day people who are a little adventurous.
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Rating: - Body of Work
There are moments of undeniable beauty and grace in witnessing some of the transformative tales of those who freely posed nude for photographer Spencer Tunick during his five-month trek across the United States. One man communicates his own epiphany post photo shoot by noticing that being naked doesn't really reveal who a person is - it's the clothes, rather, by which a person defines himself.
In elevating his work above porn, Tunick often photographs the nude in large numbers. Placing the subjects against the background of daily life, amid urban streets or modern architecture, and in glorious ... Read More
Rating: - Nudies, Nudies, everywhere.
This flick if not weird, then definitely different ? Lacks any plan or purpose ? If curiosity gets the best of the viewer at the end of the flick, and the question flashes through the minds, "Why did this film get made in the first place ? One answer might be,the film producer is addicted to wall to wall birthday suits ? This flick defies reason, logic, purpose and plot, but its definitely not porm !
Rating: - the perfect stroke dvd!!!!!
do not listen to the idiot reviewer GURLZONE right below!!! i love women of all shapes and sizes..this video is the ultimate turn-on...why??? BECAUSE THE WOMEN HERE ARE REAL!!! so please gurlzone cut the bull@#$# and be real......nobody buys this dvd for artistic purposes...(trust me) including you!!! so if you think that naturist have all the rights to pose illegaly at 6:00 am on a public avenue in front of everybody, then i have the right to say that im buying this dvd for chilli- pealing purposes...we dont care how holy or artistic you are, so dont give us a lesson.......to the photographer and director ... Read More
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