Reconceptualizing The Decisive Moment In Street Photography Through Visual Ethnography And Socio-Cultural Analysis Of Master Photographers
Keywords:
Street Photography, Decisive Moment, Visual Ethnography, Socio-Cultural Analysis, Documentary Photography, Urban Culture, Visual AnthropologyAbstract
This study explored the idea of the decisive moment in street photography using the lens of visual ethnography and socio-cultural analysis. The study redefined the decisive moment as a technical or aesthetic accomplishment as well as a culturally and socially significant visual phenomenon. In a qualitative interpretive study, the works of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Vivian Maier, Garry Winogrand, Daido Moriyama and Raghu Rai were studied to find out how street photography captured the life of the city, its cultural identity, social interaction, and human emotion. The results showed that critical moments were indicative of wider socio-cultural realities like modernity, class inequality, urban alienation, spirituality and collective memory. The research paper has concluded that street photography is a form of artistic expression and visual ethnographic record of the culture and society through visual representation
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