The first market effect of the photo was to give new intensity of presence and conspicuousness. The new effect was to relate the consumer directly to the product… So that whereas the public had once been spectators of the rich consuming conspicuously, the public now became aware of the ordinary man in the at of consuming.
“Conspicuous Co-Existence” (1957), p 2
Year: 1957
Chapter:
Photography
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan