Spencer Tunick: photography, contemporary art and education

Abstract

The text presents the photographic production of the American Spencer Tunick. He suggests reflections on Photography, Contemporary Art and Education in the interfaces with works by Roland Barhtes (Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, 1984) and Jacques Rancière (The Emancipated Spectator, 2012). The images establish games between the things exhibited and the spectator's gaze. Human flesh is aligned, posed, and modeled from a vision - that of the photographer. We are faced with provocative images. Between opposites and distances made by the spectator, there are oppositions and equivalences. When taking photography as art and as educational bet we are susceptible to the artificial, the manufactured, the eventuality, the imprecise, the hypothetical; to the improbable. Perhaps we are also facing more experimental educational bets, which concentrate on seeing and thinking photography through freer and less scholarly ways.