As you may have heard, The Library Of Congress has teamed with Flickr to create an easily searchable, public catalogue of historical photos. The photos are an important archive, a striking look into the collective historical memory of a nation–complete with informative, detached, but often weirdly poetic captions. But the Library Of Congress has only posted two photo collections (Great-Depression-Era color photos, and a series of black-and-white news photos from the 1910s) so far. How would their caption-writers put more recent events into historical perspective? Here you go:
Photos From TMZ As Captioned By The Library Of Congress
General view of the Famous at work. (Famous Woman gestating with Famous Child) Los Angeles, Calif. 2008