Yes I believe photography has a fully unique way of portraying time and passage of time because it captures exact moments, and captures them exactly as they art. Even though still life painting can capture similar effects, its not always as exact as photography capturing the exact moment it happens, and same goes with film.
I believe, no other creative forms can deal with the concept of time in the exact same way, even though they can get very close to the way to it, like still life paintings, I believe hey don’t render of capture the same effect and moment as photos can.
And photos can capture more things then still lives, example: Harold Edgerton’s Bullet and Apple captures the moment to perfectly, in order to paint that effect you would need the photo to paint from and even with the photo I don’t think it would create the exact same effect.
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