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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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