Tunick Mass Nude Shoot in Mexico

Thousands of naked people crouch in Mexico City's main Zocalo plaza during the massive naked photo session with photographer Spencer Tunick.

MEXICO CITY Ñ After his biggest nude shoot ever, U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick couldn't just pack up and go home.

Tunick photographed 105 naked women Monday at the late artist Frida Kahlo's Mexico City home, now a museum, Mexican media reported. All the models had the long black hair and thick eyebrows characteristic of the eccentric artist and wife of muralist Diego Rivera.

The women were selected from the estimated 18,000 people who stripped for Tunick the previous dawn in Mexico City's vast main square.

Standing up to salute, crouching in fetal positions and lying prone on the tiles of the Zocalo plaza, the volunteers formed a sea of flesh that Tunick snapped from balconies and a small crane.

"What a moment for the Mexican art scene!" Tunick said in a news conference. "I think all eyes are looking south from the United Sates to Mexico City to see how a country can be free and treat the naked body as art. Not as pornography or as a crime, but with happiness and caring."