In Defense of Depth

From Russian Noir by Jason Eskenazi By John Kennerdell If there’s a single received idea that fires up the imagination of my young photographer friends these days, it’s that for “professional looking” photographs they should buy fast lenses and then…

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But if the current hobbyist obsession seems to regard minimal depth of field as a hallmark of a memorable image, some of us relics from the film age might argue pretty much the opposite. The richest photos—the ones we return to again and again, seeing more each time—most often work in layers. They show more rather than less, taking in the full spatial depth of our world rather than just one razor-thin slice of it.