A photograph of “St. Peter’s at a Moment of History” was 
the cover feature of Life  magazine for June 14, 1963. It is one 
of the peculiar characteristics of the photo that it isolates 
single moments in time. The TV camera does not. The 
continuous scanning action of the TV camera provides, not the 
isolated moment or aspect, but the contour, the iconic profile 
and the transparency. Egyptian art, like primitive sculpture 
today, provided the significant outline that had nothing to do 
with a moment in time. Sculpture tends toward the timeless.

     Awareness of the transforming power of the photo is 
often embodied in popular stories like the one about the 
admiring friend who said, “My, that’s a fine child you have 
there!” Mother: “Oh, that’s nothing. You should see his 
photograph.” The power of the camera to be everywhere and to 
interrelate things is well indicated in the Vogue  magazine boast