Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Lying, Names, Cameras

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

• There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Lying, Unity

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

• [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

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