Tunick chooses former train station for new nudes

Almost 2,000 volunteers posed nude in a dilapidated former train station in Buffalo Sunday for famed photographer Spencer Tunick.

The photographer chose the city's decaying Central Terminal complete with broken windows and graffiti-covered walls as a contrast to the photos he took last October in New York's picturesque Grand Central Terminal.

The American photographer plans to exhibit the two series together in the future.

The 1,826 participants of all shapes and sizes stood, sat, turned, twisted, leaned and lay their bodies in the sculptural forms dictated by Tunick, who issued his commands through a megaphone.

In exchange for posing, the volunteers will receive a print of the event.

Tunick began photographing live nude figures in public in 1992. Two years later, he began conducting the mass nude assemblies, which he calls "temporary site-related installations."

Thousands of have volunteered to take part in his installations in North American and Europe. Though he has been arrested at least five times while attempting to work in his hometown of New York, all charges were subsequently dropped.