http://www.spencertunick.com
"I guess people want to do something else with their bodies. Using your body to make a shape as an art object is a very pure experience and it's a wonderful thing."I don't use the body as a sex object, but as an art object. And the body is used in a new way in my work. It's used to make a mass sculpture. It's liberating, it's an unbelievable situation to be in, and I think other people feel the same way. " (spencer tunick)
People are used as a large sculptural form taking the body as an aesthetic object and a living art installation. Using the body in this way, seems to detach the notions of sexuality and sensuality, why is this? It may be that the body is free from social significance, and therefore giving endless possibilities and freedom for Tunik to place his installations anywhere.
SARAH GERATS
http://www.foammagazine.nl/portfolio?foto=91
http://www.sarahgerats.be/index.php?/sarah-gerats/for-her/
Sarah gerats work looks at the male gaze and our views surrounding this. With an expected response to the male gaze ( a returning look), hidden by a reflection of the body, the body takes on a submissive and purely aesthetic role. allowing the viewer to feel comfortable to continue with his gaze.
What does this say about the female body as and aesthetic object today?
ELINOR CARUCCI
http://www.elinorcarucci.com/closer.html
Caruccis's images are beautiful. aesthetically pleasing, contradicting the pain supposed with the aesthetic object and renders it more remote and unreal: such are the dangers and paradoxes of the aesthetic. Carucci’s work constantly prods us to ask ourselves what the differences are between the beauty of a person and aestheticisation as a procedure to which the photographer may, or may not, submit her work. Carucci’s photographs are graphic. That is, her subjects are drawn as simple shapes within the frame, and she has arranged them just enough to tell us what she wants us to know. 
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