We’ve never really stopped to think about the relative sizes of the world’s photo libraries before, but this infographic from the 1000 Memories blog made us look twice. Sure, the photographs housed in the Library of Congress photo library are without a doubt better on average than anything you’d find on Facebook, but the idea that a social networking site has the rights to the lion’s share of the world’s photography still makes us quiver just a little bit. If that weren’t enough, click through for another infographic showing the extremely sharp decline of analog photography after about 2002 and shed a tear for the fate of the physical.
[via PetaPixel]