Linea (35 Nudes) [Hardcover]

Craig Morey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 4, 1996

LINEA (which means "lines" in Italian) is a collection of 35 b&w nudes, printed in duotone plates by Korinsha Press of Kyoto Japan. The photographs were done between 1988 and 1996, in studios in Calfornia and Oregon. Most of the images were created after the publication of my first book, Studio Nudes. All copies sold at Amazon.com from my office are signed and dated, first editions. I'll be happy to answer questions about either book, or my work in general, at :[e-mail]

Product Details

• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Korinsha Press; 1 edition (October 4, 1996)
• ISBN-10: 4771302278
• ISBN-13: 978-4771302273
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,646,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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 US 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, Playboy, Cupido, and the Journal of Erotica. He has also worked 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 most recent collection, Twentieth Century Studio Nudes, was released in 2001, in German, French and English by Glaspalast Edition of Augsburg Germany.

A great deal of Morey's work in the late 90's moved toward a very stylized and iconic bondage theme, and his work from that period is often included in major publications of fetish and rope photo artistry. The legendary "fetish diva" and rigger, Midori, chose Morey to photograph her first book, The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage, and they have continued to collaborate on various projects, including a documentary film by noted director Tony Cane-Honeysett, entitled Mondo Bondo, released in 2007.

Morey's fine art prints of his black & white work are sought by art collectors in the US and Europe, and his photographs are often included in major collections of erotica and fine art nude photography published in print or on the web. At present his monographs from the 90s are out of print, and only available from sources such as Amazon, Ebay, or from the photographer himself.

Craig Morey is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, but also travels extensively to Europe and the UK. For further information, contact by email: [e-mail], or http://www.moreystudio.com

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SUBLIME IMAGES....., August 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Linea (35 Nudes) (Hardcover)

"I love this book. I've been seeing Morey's work in magazines and on the web for years, but this was the first book I was able to get of his photography. I know the publisher went out of business, so I was happy to find this still available. The black & white pictures are quite elegant and each one is a masterpiece. "

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good things come in small packages, August 18, 2001

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Ervin A. Grinberg (San Anselmo, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Linea (35 Nudes) (Hardcover)

I just got my copy of Linea and I found every image to be simply gorgeous. Craig Morey's work is so far above the normal nudes you see on the internet, there's no comparison. The book is one of those great intimate Japanese hardcover collections with rich reproductions, just perfect for Morey's work. This is my second book of his purchased over the net, and I was very pleasantly surprised to find this one SIGNED by the author. Highly recommended! Five stars.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High-quality beautiful photography, May 28, 2011

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Kyoung Miller (San Leandro, CA, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Linea (35 Nudes) (Hardcover)

I just got my copy of Linea and have looked thru it a dozen times, just in the last day. I'm a photographer so this is really a valuable book for me.

I'm also a fan of Craig Morey's work, since college. I have two of his other books, but this one is the right size that I can carry it around on shoots and show to models as an example of what I'm trying to do. There's no technical info in this book ( cameras, lighting, etc) , but I knew that when I bought it. And I have other books for that info.

I would recommend this book to any glamour / figure / portrait photographers, or anyone shooting people with black & white film (is anyone still doing that?). The photos are each a great study in black & white, composition and tone. The lighting is very straightforward and dramatic. Also the model poses are really classics and the perfect thing to use for self-reminders about what works and how to properly frame a figure study.