As a movement, photorealism, sometimes also referred to as Superrealism or Hyperrealism, came to prominence in the United
States during the
late 1960s and early 1970s, largely as a result of paintings by Chuck Close (b. 1940) and Richard Estes (b. 1936), and the
extraordinarily life - like sculpture of John De Andrea (b. 1941), Duane Hanson (1925 - 96) and Carole Feuerman (b. 1945).