the work of anotine d'agata is creepy, sleazy, and beautiful...i like that. another thing i enjoy about d'agata's work is his use of motion blur and focus. these two things are basically specific to photography, so it's nice to see them taken advantage of. photography is the only medium, besides video, that can employ these elements, so they should be taken advantage of.
it seems that with painting or drawing, light can be captured in a way similar to photography. i don't think the same can be said for motion blur and focus. unlike light, motion blur and focus can not really be drawn or painted from observation. the blur of motion can not be seen and frozen by the eye, so it would be hard to record it onto canvas from observation, and i think its hard to recreate the exact appearance of something being out of focus because it is...well...out of focus. how can you truly capture what something looks like out of focus when you're not sure because it is in fact out of focus. even if artist do get a likeness of these motion blurs and out focus images onto their canvas, it's not the same as a photograph. the motion blurs and unfocused images often just become wild marks, strokes, or shapes made up by the artist. photography doesn't do this, it's not really created, it is captured as it actually is. this isn't to say that the photographer didn't do somethings to create this out of focus image with the motion blurs, they did create these things in real life, and they managed to capture them, and show them. in other mediums they are only conveyed... not captured.
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