Pornographer / Fashion Photographer

Spencer Tunick

Spencer Tunick: I show my work in galleries. My work is not for magazines.

Tanysha: That’s good. That’s a little bit of a safe spot for me. I don’t want all these little Hustler / Penthouse / Playboy magazines and all they do is cum all over women and shit.

Spencer Tunick: It’s true. You could be my spokesperson for what my work is not.

My friend Andi is in the film

Spencer Tunick: I think what’s important, the most important thing for an artist as far as if he wants to survive off his work is getting collectors to believe that the investment in your art, besides from their liking the piece for it’s aesthetic, will have some sort of value. What does that is getting written about in art magazines. And these are the magazines that are, this one right here, frieze, Flash Art, Art Forum. You know, hopefully one day. It’s a dream to open up a magazine like that and see your work in it.

-from the 2000 HBO documentary, Naked States, directed by Arlene Nelson

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