Is email post notify visitor on new media upload possible?

As for the email input form, you can use any plugin for Custom Fields ( I use Advanced Custom Fields or Custom Content Type Manager ) or add you own meta box ( tutorial ).

And for sending an email to the address inserted as a custom field, use the following code.
The custom field is named email_warn.

The filter wp_mail_content_type enables html content for emails.
And add_attachment will fire at each upload, pull the parent ID and send an email if the custom field is defined and is a valid email

add_filter( 'wp_mail_content_type', 'wpse_20324_mail_html' );
add_filter( 'add_attachment', 'wpse_20324_post_upload' );

function wpse_20324_mail_html()
{
    return "text/html";
}

function wpse_20324_post_upload( $attachment_ID )
{
    $uploaded = get_post( $attachment_ID );
    $email = get_post_meta( $uploaded->post_parent, 'email_warn', true );

    if( isset( $email ) && is_email( $email ) ) 
    {
        /**
         * The message will contain all post info about the uploaded file 
        */
        $vardump = print_r( $uploaded, true );
        $message="<pre>" . $vardump . '</pre>';

        $headers="From: Test WPSE <[email protected]>" . "\r\n";

        wp_mail( $email, 'subject', $message, $headers );
    }
}

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