Ambience Quote by Kate Atkinson

I love storytelling through old photographs.

— George Clarke

I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers,…

— Susan Meiselas

The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is…

— Elisa Kreisinger

I love looking at old photographs. I don't know if it's something that gets more appealing as one gets older and you're trying to…

— Ruth Jones

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

— Janet Malcolm

... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I…

— Mariko Mori

I am fascinated with times past.

— Frank Darabont

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th…

— Margaret O'Brien

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures…

— Fay Godwin

I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was…

— Martin Parr

I enjoy places that have mystery and atmosphere, perhaps a patina of age, a suggestion rather than a description, a question or two. I…

— Michael Kenna

In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.

— Richard Misrach