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Yousuf Karsh, master photographer of the 20th century

Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan, 1967

An inquiry about Marshall McLuhan led to the addition to the website of this image from his 1967 sitting. Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan coined the expression “the medium is the message” in the first chapter in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, and the term “global village.” And he predicted the World Wide Web almost 30 years before it was invented. Read more (Wikipedia).

See an image from his 1974 sitting.

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