Photography as Art

     Critic Solomon-Godeau states in her article, Living with Contradictions: Critical Practices in the

Age of Supply-Side Aesthetics; "the institutions and discourses that collectively function to construct the object "art" are allied to the material determinations of the  market place, which themselves establish and conform the commodity status of the work of art".

     Today the work of artist will be given to explore this contradiction in the evolution of photography, Walter Evans and Damon Lewis.

Walter Evans took a series of candid photos on the New York City Subway using the technology available to him which enabled him to conceal the camera in his coat.

     New York Times Photojournalist Damon Lewis won third prize for Picture of the Year International, unknown to the judges at the time was that the photos were taken on an iPhone with a Hipstamtic app.:

   Each photographer used the technology available to him yet one is Art and one is not, can you guess which one?