Eventually Plato named Sappho, an Ancient Greek and poet born on the island of Lesbos, as the tenth muse-the poetic muse, as she was known. The word “muse” itself comes from Ancient Greek, which started with three muses then went to nine. Often, I think of photography as visual poetry and the tenth muse was a poet. Interestingly enough, most musical lyrics are poetic in nature. It’s like driving down the highway, radio blaring, but you’re so into your life around you that you don’t even hear the music, but it’s there! This is how powerful a muse is to a photographer’s photographs and if you do hear the music, your muse becomes the lyrics to the music. A photography muse is someone that a photographer should sculpt into their photographs.Īs an example, if I were to photograph the ideal scene without my muse, it’s just a scene, but when I add my muse as the main element of the photo, she brings that scene to life-the viewer will notice that life as the muse, specifically her pose, her look, her mood and her beauty bring to the photograph whereas the scene becomes a secondary element of the photograph. In a sense, a photographer should try to deliver to their muse what they’d like to see in a photo that portrays their own thoughts and beauty, but capture what they want the feel the photo to convey at that given moment. Sometimes a muse and her photographer can create abstract photos too. My mentor claims it originates from my photojournalism background, whereas my muses in the past have no clue about my photojournalism background and tell me what they’d like for me to capture-their ideas, which I then add my style and technique to create what they want. In my case, my mentor has always given me advice on my photography business, not on how I should shoot, though he’s complimented me on my shooting style and has pointed out I photograph women from a more photojournalistic point of view-that of always trying to tell a story with my images. Mentors might influence a photographer’s style, but generally mentors only provide executional and educational guidance of a protégé’s photography. The advantage of having a muse is that it often helps the photographer develop their photographic style while the muse gets more experience in front of the camera. A photographer needs a muse in front of the camera, whereas a mentor isn’t required physically on the shoot to provide their potential. Not all muses fall into a more personal side of the photographer, but generally there is a tighter friendship between a photographer and their muse, in fact, a friendship tighter than that with a mentor. If it happens it should be natural, not forced, and if it doesn’t, don’t be discouraged, just focus on creating great photos together. This time spent together strengthens their friendship and potential relationship form, but a photographer normally doesn’t look for building a personal relationship when looking for a muse.
Self-assurance of the muse’s beauty from the photographer through the camera adds to their close relationship and the more passionately they will create photographs. While photographers aren’t providing medical care, they do in a sense provide a form of photographic therapy, or a form of acknowledgement of their muse’s beauty that benefits their muse’s self-esteem. In the end, the doctor will still provide the proper medical advice to all involved. These harmonious and passionate relationships do exist though the doctor’s close one will probably get preferred care than a typical walk-in patient. Some attractions are like parent/child, best friends and some even delve into a more intimate form.Īs an analogy, a doctor will care about their spouse, child or best friend’s health in a more immediate sense out of the passion for their unique love while on the other hand a doctor can still passionately care for their patients in a plutonic sense.
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Sometimes this attraction is subtle, sometimes strong, though it’s a very gray area in that on one hand, the photographer is trying to maintain a plutonic, professional relationship, while on the other hand, natural attraction can lead to more from a humanistic sense. This passion is one of artistic nature, however, sometimes this passion is generated from a natural attraction to both parties. Here Tess posed for me in the Virgin Islands. It’s often hard for others to understand the relationship between a muse and her photographer.
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