The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

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

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.