The photograph is a window which can convey us a view of nearly anything. We can travel through time and space at our desk in the living room and drink our preferred drink.
Is photograph as evidence?
Indeed yes, a picture can capture a very moment of an event. If the camera is in "right" hands, the photographs can have a mystique tone. I love Lartigue's photographs, especially what they do with the mind.
On the other hand, there are photographs without the "mystery" tone, but they convey the space and time like in these examples in this web link: http://zoehowarth.blogspot.cz/2013/07/land-art-andy-goldsworthy-and-richard.html
The photograph is a "proof" of work which is somewhere in space. Through the photographs we can see it, anybody has access to that work. The work is cut off space and is transferred via paper or screen.
Certainly, the photograph is a part of the Art in it. What the photograph can not transfer are the circumstances when we watch the work via our eyes: the airy contact, many different angles of viewpoints, colours, environment. It is the big difference to see Van Gogh's paintings in photographs and on self-eyes.
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