The latest project of U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick was to photograph thousands of nudes in Amsterdam.

The image at left has some 2,000 participants lining the outer edges of a public parking building on the edge of the city.

This was not as large as the recent project in Mexico City involving some 18,000 people but continues his tradition of finding interesting ways to place his subjects in notable scenes in the cities he visits.

Washington Post
Toby Sterling - The Associated Press

June 3, 2007; 10:00 AM

2,000 Gather for Amsterdam Nude Photo

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Dozens of women posed naked on their bicycles on a bridge over one of Amsterdam's historic canals 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 U.S. 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 multicolor stripes against the white building and an overcast sky.

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 Brooklyn, N.Y., 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 month. Read original press release...