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Craig Morey was born in 1952 in Ft.
Wayne, Indiana, in the Midwestern
U.S. He attended Indiana University
and studied with the noted Bauhaus
artist, Henry Holmes Smith. In 1974,
Morey moved to California, where he
and a group of other young
photographers founded
San Francisco
Camerawork,
the first nonprofit center for
photography on the West Coast.
Camerawork Gallery was (and
continues to be) devoted to showing
the newest and most innovative work
in contemporary photography. Morey
served as Executive Director of SF
Camerawork from its founding until
1981.
During the same period, Morey's
personal work with abstract and
whimsical black & white nudes
garnered numerous exhibitions and
awards, including a Special Jury
Prize at the International Triennial
of Photography in Friebourg,
Switzerland, and First Prize at the
California State Exposition. He was
also named one of five worldwide
"Discoveries" by the editors of
Time-Life' Books.
In 1981, Morey left San Francisco
Camerawork to pursue a free-lance
photography career. His clients
since then have included hundreds of
magazines, such as Architectural
Digest, San Francisco Focus,
California Magazine, Interview,
Newsweek, Penthouse, Cupido, and the
Journal of Erotica. He also works
for corporate clients, including
Apple Computer, The Gap, Bechtel
Corp., Levi Strauss, Avon,
Neutrogena and Wells Fargo Bank.
Beginning in 1988, working on
assignment for Penthouse, Morey
began creating a series of striking
black & white nudes which appeared
in numerous publications in the
U.S., Canada, and Europe. A
hardcover monograph of selections
from this Penthouse project,
Studio Nudes,
was published in the fall of 1992. A
second book of images, titled
Body/Expression/Silence,
was released in Japan in 1994, and
another Japanese monograph,
Linea,
was published by Korinsha Press of
Kyoto, in 1996.
Morey's newest collection,
Twentieth
Century Studio Nudes,
has recently been released in
German, French and English by
Glaspalast Edition of Augsburg
Germany.
Craig Morey lives and works in the
San Francisco Bay Area. |
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