INTERNET PHOTOGRAPHY

Jason Evans is raising some serious questions about the use of internet/photography as a means of art making. He is essentially wondering why photography on and or for the internet is not being used more inventively. Evans sees the internet as an amazing gallery for photography if you are solely looking for an audience. However, very importantly, in the response to his essay, the type of "audience" is questioned. What level of interest is in the audience, how engaged is the view of the work, and to what intention did the spectator arrive at the photograph? Evans sees the internet as a valuable tool to photography. He places analog and digital on "different sides of the same coin". He also raises a very interesting point about the tangible being involved when making work and how that experience is still extremely important and remains mostly intact within the meaning of the work even after the image becomes intangible. Evans desires to see photographers push at this idea more. I concur with the response that talks about how this shift in art making will eventually happen but it is just not time for it yet. I think its beginning to take shape as the changes within the photographs, the market, the materials (or lack there of), and the communication between them all becomes more visible.