1840 People Get Naked for Euros

In the end, they didn’t get the 2008 naked people they’d hoped for, but they got a fair number.

Photographer Spencer Tunick was able to assemble 1840 naked bodies in Vienna at Happel Stadium, site of the June 29 Euro 2008 final, for his art project yesterday.

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. …

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.”

Umm…yeah.

Participants didn’t receive money, but they will get a signed photo. The final pictures will be displayed starting June 23.