My photography project

“Motivation”

Jarred colliver

• 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.

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?”

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.

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. 

Photos by Annie Lebovitz

Aura Rosenberg

Born: 1949

Hometown: New York,

NY Lives and Works: New York and Berlin

Website: www.aurarosenberg.com

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.

 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.

Photos by Aura Rosenberg

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.

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.