[Of the photograph] By its snapshotting quality it enhances aggression and private power over people. It obsolesces privacy. retrieves the past as present; it brings back the big-game hunter.
Man and Media,” lecture delivered at York University, Toronto, (1979), in Understanding Me (2003), p 287
Year: 1979
Chapters:
Hunters of Information | Laws of Media
↪ Also at #3313
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan