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Paris life models make nude protest to demand respect ... and better pay | Art and design | The Guardian
guardian.co.uk - 12/16/2008
Paris life models make nude protest to demand respect ... and better pay | Art and design | The Guardian
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Students in a life drawing class, Paris Students in a life drawing class, Paris. Photograph: Bernard Annebicque/Corbis

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Paris Life Models Protest Naked
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... The Guardian is reporting that life models in Paris are so angry they are not getting the respect they deserve, they went on strike -- naked. ...

Five Years of Iowahawk [Dan Collins]
protein wisdom — Five Years of Iowahawk [Dan Collins] And his personal selection of his 25 least sucky posts . Go congratulate him. Also, Parisian nude models strike over pay . Please show your support. Posted by Dan Collins @ 10:33 am | Trackback

Did They Think This Through?
Electric Venom — Striking in the nude to protest low wages for nude models? Reminds me of something about a cow and buying milk…. Copyright © 2008 Electric Venom. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in ...

One picket line we would not cross
TigerHawk — I think more Americans would be socialist if our labor actions were like this : From Rodin and Courbet's naked muses and lovers to Degas's clinical study of the female form, the nude has always taken pride of place in French art. But Paris is now being accused of showing such philistine ingratitude to its life models that scores went on strike yesterday, taking to the streets to pose naked in freezing temperatures to shame the state. In front of the tastefully decorated Christmas trees outside Paris city hall's culture department, the naked and goose-pimpled models demanded a ...

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