Bigger picture Quote by Wade Gardner

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

— John Updike

If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus.

— Bill Jay

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

— David Bailey

Photography helps people to see.

— Berenice Abbott

To photograph is to confer importance.

— Susan Sontag

...I always feel it's necessary to look at my images from two distances. Here is my criterion: If I can look at it from…

— Bruce Barnbaum

I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super tight for…

— Henry Selick

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

A small lens gives you a very specific look. You don't have a shallow depth of field.

— Sean Baker

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

— Rineke Dijkstra

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a…

— Clement Greenberg

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin