Transcendent (And Very Hot) Nudes By C. Owen Johnson

Please don't think for a second that the photos of gorgeous naked models in photographer C. Owen Johnson's sprawling online portfolio are just there for you to drool over: after all, they're "artistic representations of the female nude" (it says so right there on his splash page) and represent "both the beauty of the female form and art that a model and photographer collaborate to produce". We've had a couple of opportunties in the past to note how well those collaborations work with models like Minx and Zille Defeu, but browsing through the rest of the several dozen galleries on Johnson's site convinced us how successful he's been in the greater task he's set out to do: "This site is about the answer to that question—to the extent that it is answerable—about images that transcend the labels - and the boundaries - of 'art', 'erotica', and 'porn.'" (And if you find yourself drooling over the results of those experiments ... well, we won't tell.)

· Studio Imago: Photography by C. Owen Johnson (studioimago.com, via Unscathed Corpse)