Exposure
There are a great many nude blogs around nowadays, some of which (the ones I read) are most excellent. One thing I’ve always wondered though is why the photographers and models who run these blogs rarely talk about their personal lives or those close to them.
You catch snippets of information here and there, a casual mention of a girlfriend or a day job, an elusive hint at a past relationship, but rarely anything to reveal just how and why the writer feels and thinks as he does, and what history maketh the man (or woman).
Is it just that they think that the photos speak for themselves ? Or that they think folks only tune in to look at the boobies ? Do they want to shield their nearest and dearest from the photographic world ? Is it because they think that it is unprofessional to mention how they feel? Or just that they think that readers won’t be interested in reading about their daily personal lives ?
Maybe this is just reflects something about me. I don’t think I’m writing well unless I’m writing either about a) money (my day job, which is immensely boring) or b) spilling my emotional guts all over the blogosphere. This is probably not particularly professional, but it is the real me.
Writing (blogging included) is a form of Art. For me writing, modelling, photography and emotions are all bound tightly together. Inseparable.
For what is Art if it’s not about emotion ? How can you do one without including the other ?
Photographers and models would perhaps argue that they don’t need to talk about their emotions and personal lives on their blogs, because their emotions and personality are reflected in their images.
There is no doubt that this is true. But I can’t help that think that a bit more personal background and history in the prose would further enhance understanding and appreciation of the Artist. A few photography blogs are written this way, but the vast majority are not.
It’s not just about the photographs you know. Readers want to know about the lives of real people involved in making such beautiful imagery.
Or maybe I’m just being nosey.
You catch snippets of information here and there, a casual mention of a girlfriend or a day job, an elusive hint at a past relationship, but rarely anything to reveal just how and why the writer feels and thinks as he does, and what history maketh the man (or woman).
Is it just that they think that the photos speak for themselves ? Or that they think folks only tune in to look at the boobies ? Do they want to shield their nearest and dearest from the photographic world ? Is it because they think that it is unprofessional to mention how they feel? Or just that they think that readers won’t be interested in reading about their daily personal lives ?
Maybe this is just reflects something about me. I don’t think I’m writing well unless I’m writing either about a) money (my day job, which is immensely boring) or b) spilling my emotional guts all over the blogosphere. This is probably not particularly professional, but it is the real me.
Writing (blogging included) is a form of Art. For me writing, modelling, photography and emotions are all bound tightly together. Inseparable.
For what is Art if it’s not about emotion ? How can you do one without including the other ?
Photographers and models would perhaps argue that they don’t need to talk about their emotions and personal lives on their blogs, because their emotions and personality are reflected in their images.
There is no doubt that this is true. But I can’t help that think that a bit more personal background and history in the prose would further enhance understanding and appreciation of the Artist. A few photography blogs are written this way, but the vast majority are not.
It’s not just about the photographs you know. Readers want to know about the lives of real people involved in making such beautiful imagery.
Or maybe I’m just being nosey.
posted by Lin at 6:17 PM
6 Comments:
I'm sure the lack of detail may have to do with day job employers and clients not being too keen on having "pornographers" working for them. Or even if they're full-time photographers, a lot of the time they do their nude work under an assumed name so as to not scare away the wedding, family portrait, and baby photo clients.
I'm not sure how you would characterize my blog (magicflutenudes.blogspot.com), but my own attitude is that the blog is about photography, my practice of it, and things I like to share about photographing the fine art nude. I can't imagine anyone being interested in my personal life, or my views on the cloning of sheep or the idiocy of Bush's war.
But thanks for your own blog -- I check it every day and enjoy what I read.
Stephen
Stephen,
I'm a big fan of your work and I read your blog every day too. I would very much like to learn more about "Stephen Haynes", the man behind those beautiful images, what called you to photographing nudes in the first place, how your family feel about your work (which you've alluded to but never expanded on), about how you set up your business and so forth. I feel this can only enhance your work and your blog, as well as help with the marketing of your business.
Lin
My personal life is, for the most part, about as exciting as watching paint dry. I'm not sure boring my readers with it would be in the interest of entertaining blogsmanship.
My personal life is equally unexciting, and yet folks keep coming back to read about it (for reasons I am not sure of)!
If I were the least bit interesting, I wouldn't have to take the photographs. I have good reason to believe that when I'm not making images I am, in fact, invisible.
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