The latest work by New York photographer Spencer Tunick gathered 1,840 people, baring it all in Austria's Happel Stadium on Sunday.
The man behind the camera had three requests for his subjects: no sunglasses, no smiling, and no underwear.
"Stay very still. Don't move," the Austria Press Agency quoted Tunick as telling the crowd as he went to work.
This foto shoot was at the stadium.Much of the hours-long photo shoot had little to do with soccer, with naked volunteers assuming different poses at the behest of the artist. But at least one of the photos had them with the ball, men first and then the women.
The stadium will host seven of the Euro 2008 soccer championship matches being staged by Austria and Switzerland, including the June 29 final.
Tunick has made a name for himself with his works featuring hundreds of naked people at unusual venues. He described Sunday's shooting on his Web site as combining "the spirit of sports, the grand sweeping waves of stadium architecture and the abstract relation of the human form to modern structures."
OBAMA PERSON
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Doris Smith went downtown early Monday to see about getting tickets to Barack Obama's rally. Advance seats were sold out, she said, and the only option was to stand in line for up two hours or more and hope for the best.
Disappointed, she decided instead to go for breakfast - and walked right into Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign stop.
"Oh, I didn't want to do this," Smith said, embarrassed, wearing an Obama T-shirt as Clinton walked into the restaurant. "I didn't know she was going to be here."
Clinton, however, passed up the biscuit counter. She signed autographs and posed for pictures with the mostly older clientele who gathered for a late Monday morning breakfast.
Smith, who lives in nearby Institute, said she liked Clinton but prefers Obama.
"We've got to get the Republicans out of there," she said.
As Clinton left the building, Smith stepped up to shake her hand. She told the candidate that getting a Democrat in office was her priority.
"It's been too long since we have," Clinton agreed, touching Smith's shoulder gently, and smiling.
IF NA 9JA THIS WOMAN TRY TRY THIS, THE POLITICIAN'S THUGS FOR SHOW HER PEPER.
