a history of mass nudity

April - 500 nude vounteers posed in London's Selfridges department store. June - 7000 people posed in Barcelona. October - 450 women shed their clothes to take part in a shoot at New York's Grand Central train station.

April - 500 nude vounteers posed in London's Selfridges department store.

June - 7000 people posed in Barcelona.

October - 450 women shed their clothes to take part in a shoot at New York's Grand Central train station.

June - 2,754 people posed in a field in Cleveland, Ohio - the biggest ever installation in the US.

August - 1800 nudes posed in Buffalo's old central train station.

July - 1,700 nudes posed on the quaysides at Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead .

September - 1,493 nudes took part in an installation in Lyon on the Rhône quaysides and footbridge.

March - 1,500 nudes were photographed in Caracas beside a Simon Bolivar statue.

June - 2000 nudes took part in a shoot in Amsterdam.

May -18,000 people posed for Tunick in Mexico City's principal square, the Zócalo, setting a new record, more than doubling the previous highest number of 7,000 people who had turned out in Barcelona in 2003.

August - 600 nude people took part in a "living sculpture" on the Aletsch Glacier in an installation intended to draw attention to global warming in collaboration with Greenpeace.

June - 1200 people posed naked in the grounds of Blarney Castle in County Cork. Another photoshoot was organised for four days later in Dublin, on the South Wall with over 2500 nude people taking part.

October - More than 700 volunteers turned up at a vineyard near Macon, France for a number of poses among the vines in order to draw attention to the effect global warming was having on wine production.

March - More than 5,200 people took part in series of installations titled "The Base" on the Sydney Opera House. The installations were carried out as part of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.August - around 700 revellers at The Big Chill Festival, at Eastnor Castle Deer Park in Herefordshire UK, shed their clothes and covered themselves in five shades of body paint for an installation that paid homage to the art of Yves Klein, Mark Rothko and Ellsworth Kelly, and made reference to the BP oil spillage in the Gulf of Mexico.

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