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With desert peaks stabbing the sky and a thin blue ribbon of Dead Sea shimmering in the distance, the ghostly figures of around men and women -- painted head to toe in white -- began appearing from behind an outcrop. Each and every one of them was naked. Which could only mean one thing: World-renowned New York artist Spencer Tunick was back to photograph his latest installation. Known for coordinating large-scale nude photos in public places, from a Swiss glacier to the steps of the Sydney Opera House, Tunick is also here to help an old friend and collaborator, Ari Leon Fruchter, in his attempts to build a Dead Sea Museum. Indeed, the shoot is taking place on the very spot where the museum may one day stand. Artist Spencer Tunick oversees the photo shoot by the Dead Sea.
France 24 is not responsible for the content of external websites. Hundreds of models wearing only white body paint walked Sunday across a stark desert expanse in southern Israel near the Dead Sea, part of the latest photography project of American artist Spencer Tunick. As for Tunick, dressed, in black, he stood on the roof of a recreational vehicle and issued commands on a megaphone. The year-old photographer visited Israel as a guest of the tourism ministry to portray for the third time the shrinking Dead Sea via nude subjects. Tunick depicted more than 1, nude models a decade ago on the shores of the salty Dead Sea, which is receding at about a metre yard a year. Israel and Jordan have diverted much of the upstream water for agriculture and drinking water, while mineral extraction and evaporation accelerated by climate change have made the problem worse. By the time Tunick returned five years later, the placid waters of his first shoot had receded, leaving behind crusty sand and gaping sinkholes. On Sunday, Tunick posed his subjects on stony brown hills overlooking the turquoise lake. About people followed his directions, both men and women, standing straight and stooped, some thin and some rotund. He said he chose to cover the models in white paint to evoke the Biblical story of Lot's wife, who was said to have turned into a pillar of salt.