CONTAINS NUDITY Dozens of men and women undress for photographer Tunick - 2007

06/03/2007 1. Wide shot of people lined up in car parking building at dawn 2. Participants listening to direction from Spencer Tunick 3. Participants undressing on upper level of car park 4. Various shots of naked participants posing for Tunick's installation 5. Pan from onlooker to final car park installation 6. Naked women biking toward bridge 7. Tunick giving directions to women on bikes 8. Pan of women on bikes on bridge over Amsterdam canal 9. Various of naked women on bikes posing 10. Tunick taking photos 11. Naked women on bikes looking up at sky for photo 12. Onlooker taking photograph from apartment window 13. Naked women ringing bike bells and waving 14. Women walking onto installation bridge 15. Tunick taking pictures 16. Naked women appearing to be suspended over canal like a bridge 17. Tunick taking photo 18. Women descending from bridge construction 19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Spencer Tunick, photographer: "It was very hard to find a space in a city that is meant for such a small amount of people to extend over a thousand people. And I was very lucky to get - how many did we get? - we got almost two thousand people to fill up a massive car park from the 50s or 60s, right." 20. Cutaway of naked women posing 21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Spencer Tunick, photographer: "I get people to shed their inhibitions, basically because the people that are shedding their clothing, are really interested in contemporary art and engaging in new cultural things." 22. Wide shot of media 23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Didi, naked participant: "It was very exciting, I didn't even feel shy. It was nice, yeah." 24. Tilt up from reflection of car park building in water to wide shot of naked participants lining the railings of the building STORYLINE: Dozens of women posed naked on their bicycles on a bridge over one of Amsterdam's historic canals on Sunday, a unique sight even in a city famed for its relaxed attitude toward nudity and sex. They were among 2,000 men and women who participated in a series of four nude group photos in the city in the early hours of the morning as part of the latest project of US photographer Spencer Tunick. The first and largest composition was in a decidedly prosaic location: a parking garage on the outer ring of the city. But what the location lacked in romance, it made up for in style. Participants lined the railings of the garage's twin circular towers, creating a pattern of multicolour stripes against the white building and an overcast sky. "It was very hard to find space in a city meant for such a small amount of people," Tunick said. "I was very lucky to get almost 2,000 to fill a massive car park." The women on bikes were selected from the larger group and posed with their chins pointed triumphantly upward toward the sky. Other compositions included a group of men posing together near the parking garage and a mixed group of men and women on another bridge. Tunick, from New York City, has become famous for photographing thousands of naked people in public settings worldwide, from London and Vienna to Buenos Aires and Buffalo. He set a record for naked photography with a photo of 18,000 people in the buff in Mexico City last year. "I get people to shed their inhibitions basically because the people shedding their clothing are interested in contemporary art," Tunick told AP Television. Photos from Sunday's session were to be exhibited at an Amsterdam club Sunday night, and will be reproduced on billboards in the city later in the summer. Keyword-wacky You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/b74406cbcb8843ad30c3e1a333659ee1 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork