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Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the porkpie hats, you'll be hard-pressed to tell the years in which the pictures were taken.

— Graydon Carter

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man.

— Big Sean

It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend.

— Erin McKean

Just as you can identify eras of fashion by glancing at a piece of vintage clothing, logos create and follow trends over time.

— Peleg Top

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

— Ansel Adams

The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.

— Tom Brokaw

I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image.

— Gloria Grahame

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.

— John Kricfalusi

✗Opposing Perspectives

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

— Fay Godwin

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

— John Malkovich