The photograph has reversed the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. ... The world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other medium.

— Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)

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