>>4205346>You can't. i hate to tell you this but photography isn't really that capable of this. You could, perhaps, effortmaxx and photograph one single milisecond slice of theatre. Most people who achieve this catch some historically significant or characterizing moment by sheer luck.This thread is getting interesting now.
I agree that the most meaningful photos are often captured by sheer luck - but I suspect OP isn't meticulously planning out every shot they take, they're operating by luck and a bit of taste as well. However, I disagree on the idea that meaning cannot be sought, shaped, and created intentionally in one off photos. I'd say that the meaning tends to be a bit more limited or narrow in scope. Some things may be relevant to one culture, and not to another.
If you took a single photo from How the Other Half Lives, it would still convey much of the sentiment and meaning as the collected works together. You look at >pic related and can still get a sense of the struggle of immigrants in America, the challenges of a multigenerational household in a small space, the squalid conditions of the tenements.
Sure, OP is a long way from this, but a single photograph on a meaningful theme can still be meaningful. Hell - on a sentimental note, photos of family and loved ones always mean something positive or negative. Even indifference towards a picture of your mother is meaningful.
