2. • The definition of the word is motivation "a reason
and or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular
way”
• Therefore the construct of the term motivation is
highly subjective
• motivation can be anything from getting up early in
the morning to go to work to going to the gym and
trying to get into shape.
3. I am personally interested in the term "motivation" as
I have much personal experience with it, but my
interest in the word can be seen in questions like
"what is motivation itself? ”, “what is motivation to
others?”, “What causes motivation?” and “what
causes motivation to action?”
4. Annie Leibovitz
born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on October 2, 1949 ,At
Northwood High School, she became interested in
various artistic endeavors, and began to write and
play music. She attended the San Francisco Art
Institute, where she studied painting. For several years,
she continued to develop her photography skills while
working various jobs, including a stint on a
kibbutz in Amir, Israel, for several months in 1969. In the
1980s, Leibovitz's new style of lighting and use of bold
colors and poses got her a position with Vanity
Fair magazine. Leibovitz photographed celebrities for an
international advertising campaign for American
Express charge cards, which won a Clio award in 1987.
5. I found that my interpretation of the message being delivered by this image is
similar to that of the message I intend to deliver to my audiences through my own
photography and I found it the most interesting of the series, this image and the
other works of Annie L link to my own project because I am exploring the word
"motivation", what it means to be motivated, what motivates us, what motivation
then allows/causes us to do. I plan to take some photographs using the same
techniques of subjects to try and learn through recarthasism to how i can also
portray my image and its message to the target audience with the same clarity as
Annie Leibovitz.
7. Aura Rosenberg
Born: 1949
Hometown: New York,
NY Lives and Works: New York and Berlin
Website: www.aurarosenberg.com
8. Aura Rosenberg BioAbout The Artist"Aura Rosenberg’s art is
concerned with themes of the body, sexuality, and gender. In
the late-1980s, for instance, she crafted provocative sculptures,
photographs, and paintings based on images culled from
pornographic magazines. Though Rosenberg turned away from
incorporating porn in her art in the mid-90s, when she became
a mother, she returned to the source in the 2010s. The industry
had drastically changed, and Rosenberg was challenged to
reconcile her past approach to the subject with the new
digitized products of the 21st century. Rosenberg's interest in
the corporeal is also evinced by her collection of body
paintings, which she often executes by covering herself in
acrylic paint and then imprinting the canvas with her figure, an
action that emphasizes the artist's literal presence in her work.
9. I have chosen to analyse this image because I
found that my interpretation of the message being
delivered by this image has some relevance to my
own project, in the sense that I will be looking at the
characteristics of "motivation" and what motivates
people. I plan to take some photographs using the
same techniques of subjects to try and learn through
recarthasism as to how i can also portray my image
and its message to the target audience as Aura
Rosenberg did.
11. My exploration
A key characteristic to "motivation" that i find deeply intriguing is
that can be both positive and negative, for example. Someone can
hate themselves or their current way living so much that they are
driven and motivated to make serious changes or to even change
the whole way of living. But, then on the other hand. There is
positive motivation, to which somebody is "motivated" by the
positive in their life, their prior successes and or the "good" or
"light" they have witnessed in their life such as someone
commiting a selfless act. I find this so interesting because despite
the motivation being "born" or "created" of the different ends of the
spectrum of perception. They both aid the subject in the same
way in order to help them achieve their aspirations and or goals.A
interesting qoute to this is "you have to hate losing, more than you
like winning" in which it is suggesting that negative reinforcement
of failure is stronger than the positive reinforcement of success.
12. My development
My hopeful development process
Body composition- how people perceive themselves,
how they feel about their bodies, what about their
bodies may cause them to be motivated to change
Preparation- people acting on their motivation,
preparing both physically and mentally to try and
commit a change.
The act- people in the act of their change, perhaps
visually showing distress to which motivation is
possibly a positive reinforcement allowing for the
continuation of act.
