Marshall McLuhan Quotes about Photography

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Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

Marshall McLuhan

Photography, People, Mass

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

Marshall McLuhan

Photography, Travel, Encounters

Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.

Marshall McLuhan

Photography, Dream, Stars

Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.

Marshall McLuhan

Photography, Lying, Museums