“The strive to gain, the push for power, and this will fail you in your final hour”. I was struck by a line written by Edward Crawford during a Ted Talk. I do not know if there is a summary for my ramblings. Is the conflict today – what is in it for me versus the greater good?
They encourage looking beyond the present moment to a future worth striving for (described about Lincoln in the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin – “Leadership”). Transformational leaders inspire followers to believe in something larger than themselves.
Peter Drucker and others have talked about the difference in doing things right (more transactional) as opposed to doing the right things for your organization, people, etc. Bass, in 1990, said transactional leadership is grounded in reciprocity. The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost Shreshtha Ramsout 19.7k views 10 slides The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost PowerPoint Presentation with interactive q. In the business & political world transactional leaders look to motivate by understanding the self-interest of their followers using carrot and stick. Frost's own love of nature is confirmed in this. That might have rung true in 1900 but are we buying it in 2020? Are we not in conflict, as a society, between what is in it for me and my people versus what is best for people at large? Conflict – 2020 has brought out the best in us and the worst in us.Ĭonflict – Transactional leadership and transformational leadership. The obvious visual image of a winding path in Robert Frost 's The Road Not Taken is supported by other sensory images that the poem conjures. Teddy Roosevelt is credited with saying – “People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care”. I suppose the real question is could more people go back to work while less people are losing their lives from the virus? How are decisions being made and what is the motivation for those decisions? Conflict – if a vast majority of the scientific community are telling us that wearing a mask is saving lives, why would anyone say it is a personal choice to not wear a mask? Then again, if people are not working, they could lose everything. Think of it as wiping out every man, women, in child in the city of Providence, Rhode Island. COVID-19 has wiped out over 180,000 people in the USA. Not to be so profound, but where are we heading as a human race? What we do or don’t do is amplified due to the 2020 environment. Today, we are all sitting at a crossroad. If I extend this thought it seems to me this could be about right and wrong and good and evil. It also represents conflicts all of us have regarding the decisions we each make. As an outsider who moved to New York some years ago, Arnaud’s images are informed and inspired by the greats that precede him, but also announce his own unique style.I don’t presume to have any special expertise to interpret the deepest meaning of this Robert Frost poem, but since I have the power of the pen, for me today, it speaks volumes about the choices that we make in life and the resulting impact of those choices.
Leaving the fast paced city life behind and setting off on a journey into the American psyche.
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN IMAGES SERIES
This series investigates classic visual themes of Americana and touches upon some of the ideas laid down by the Beat poets. This print is from Arnaud Montagard’s first monograph, The Road Not Taken, published by Setanta Books. Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet whose work was at odds with many of his modernist contemporaries, such as William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, and T. The strong shadows create a feeling that make the pictures look like paintings.” ‘The Road Not Taken’ is one of Robert Frost’s most famous poems. Of his work Arnaud says: “My work is above all a story about light. Focusing on the details that might otherwise pass us by. Arnaud is always looking to bring the every day to life. Choosing to capture isolated figures caught in their own thoughts, staring out of view. A Road Not Taken opens with strong imagery, because of the diction used to depict two physical roads separating from each other in a yellow wood. There is a timeless elegance that Arnaud Montagard captures in his photography that echoes work by painters such as Edward Hopper but also pioneering colour photographers such as Stephen Shore & William Eggleston. With an emphasis on minimalism, his photography creates a new angle on an ordinary detail. His photography focuses on composition and details, creating an atmosphere that is often referencing the work of famous American realist painters. Arnaud Montagard (b.1991) is a French photographer, he currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
0 kommentar(er)
