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Originally Posted by jim914109
I have a couple of links to the news reports from back when it happened, but they mention her name, of course, and I'm not sure it does good to repost that incident attached to her personally years later.
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Note: When I said I had links, but that I wasn't going to post them to maintain her privacy, I didn't mean PM me for the links - that would compromise her privacy too. So please forget that I said I had them. It's too late for me to edit the post to take the reference to old news reports out.
Here's the redacted text of one contemporaneous news report from August 2009:
Decent Exposure? Nude Model Arrested at The Met
Photographer Zach Hyman gathered his team for what would be his next masterpiece: capturing a nude model in one of the world's most famous art museums, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
But it seems the only nudes allowed at the Met are the ones already on the walls.
After a run-in with museum security, police arrested K____ _____, a 26-year-old model, who was posing naked in front of an armored horse for the 22-year-old photographer.
It was the first time one of Hyman's models has been arrested, though the young artist has been snapping nudes in public spaces for the last three months. An earlier photograph of a model disrobing in a subway car received media attention.
Hyman plans heavily before a shoot. In this case, his team-of-six entered the gallery around 4 p.m. on Wednesday to see if the coast was clear. "We mapped out the plan, scoped out the scene, got in one by one," Hyman told Crimesider. "It almost felt like a heist."
Once the female guard left the gallery, Hyman directed _____ to disrobe in full view of visitors for a 15 second photo shoot.
But the guard quickly returned and entered the gallery mid-shoot. _____ grabbed her clothes. The team dispersed. But _____ didn't make it out fast enough. She was removed from the museum in handcuffs, the only one of the team that was arrested.
Defense attorney Donald Schechter says the museum is full of nude art, and to call what the model and her photographer were doing obscenity "is ridiculous."
"It's ironic to get caught in an art museum, since that's what we're doing here," Hyman explained.
_____ faces a charge of public lewdness.
Hyman has said he's inspired by nude paintings at the Met and his photos are not pornographic.
Hyman, a 22-year-old acting-school dropout, has taken nude photos almost everywhere in the Big Apple, including Chinatown and the heavily patrolled Time Square, in which he strategically placed friends near oblivious officers. The models are unpaid. Hyman says they pose because they believe in the art.
During a recent shoot on a subway car, one woman screamed while an elderly man started to shake. But most passengers seemed unfazed, according to the artist.
An exhibit of 14 of his images opened Thursday, Aug. 20, at the Chair and Maiden Gallery in Manhattan. His museum photo will be featured at Art Live 09 exhibit on Sept. 3rd also at the Chair and Maiden Gallery.