Let’s face facts: the Web, after nearly 20 years, has failed to uncover new masters of noble art forms like poetry, sculpture and the airport thriller. But it has engendered — for good or ill — new forms of creative expression. Blogs and viral videos are only the most obvious. Fan fiction, wikis, Flash animation and Second Life avatars are a few more. People don’t upload to the Web words and images they had fashioned apart from the Web; they fashion their stuff specifically for online platforms and audiences.
Consider photography....
[From Virginia Heffernan - The Medium - Television - Internet Video - Media - Flickr - Photography - New York Times]
Not like Cartier-Bresson, observes Times writer Virginia Heffernan in this provocative piece.
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