Harvey's Back

Latest hijinks: 30-second nudes on a bus

by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Published in October, 2009

The swarms of maize-clad football fans weren't the only ones stopping traffic around Michigan Stadium after the U-M's win over Western Michigan in September. Ann Arbor's most notorious photographer, Harvey Drouillard, was at it again--photographing nude models for his new book, Mission Skinpossible. Two women and one man shed their clothes while crossing the street at Stadium and Main, walking away from the stadium's back door down Greene, and standing atop a maize and blue bus on Fifth Avenue. Taking less than thirty seconds from disrobing to posing to robing, each shot happened so fast that few in the crowds even noticed--although there did seem to be a sudden rise in the number of people shouting "Go Blue!"    

[Originally published in October, 2009.]