A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Just as the painter Samuel Morse had unintentionally projected himself into the nonvisual world of the telegraph, so the photograph really transcends the pictorial by capturing the inner gestures and postures of both body and mind, yielding the new worlds of endocrinology and psychopathology.
Understanding Media, 1964, MIT/Routledge edition, p 202
Year: 1964
Chapter: Photography
Compiled by William Kuhns
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