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Style|The Visuals That Defined Style This Year
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/style/best-photos-2025-nyt-styles.html
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It was a year of extremes. Extreme close-ups, extreme colors, extreme loudness and extreme quiet. The visuals that defined the New York Times Styles section in 2025 showcased bold choices made by the people behind and in front of camera lenses.
The still and moving images photographers made on assignment this year captured rock stars, superfans, fashion shows, marching bands and familiar faces in surprising ways. Here, we share a collection of those images, along with photographers’ reflections.
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“This photograph reminds me of Botticelli’s ‘The Birth Of Venus.’ In the painting, Venus arrives at the shore for the first time; in this photograph, Lupita arrives at the Met Gala, with the quiet certainty that she has, indeed, stood in this place before.” — Landon Nordeman
