Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which …

Walter Lippmann
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Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real. They come, we imagine, directly to us without human meddling, and they are the most effortless food for the mind conceivable. ✨ Public Opinion. Book by Walter Lippmann, 1922.
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