Pornography, then, is specialism in sex. You take one small aspect of it and push it up to high intensity. The same with emotions, any sort of emotion. Like in the newspaper where you see the grief of a mother photographed. This is ghastly and indecent, because you have the whole situation torn apart and just one little aspect pushed up to high intensity.
“Love,” interview with Saturday Night magazine, February, 1967, p 26
Year: 1967
Chapters:
Photography | Specialism
↪ Also at #6482
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan