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<em>Another</em> Photographer Mixes Nudity With NYC
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Jen Carlson
Published Mar 23, 2011
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Next month photographer Erica Simone will unveil her nude self-portraits in an exhibit titled "Nue York: Self-Portraits of a Bare Urban Citizen." The 20 photographs feature Simone all over the city—from the Bowery to the Bronx—sans clothing. They include her shoveling snow, panhandling, window shopping, eating a hot dog (of course), checking out some books at the library, getting bent over a car by a police officer, and so on. They are all too NSFW to post here, but if you have some privacy, we promise not to judge if you click through to the exhibit's gallery of images.
To get an up close look, the show runs at Dash Gallery (that's Damon Dash, not a Kardashian thing) from April 14th through the 28th. The press release tells us: "Simone publicly bares all, raising the philosophy behind 'just being,' as well as playing with the idea of 'counter-fashion'—that without clothing, people could not possibly socially interpret each other." Though it may be easy to interpret a photographer using nudity to stir up controversy! Anyway, Zach Hyman did this years ago, and even he wasn't the first.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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