The issue should be obvious: Presenting Estes (or any photorealist) as a «consummate artisan,» in Adamson's words, emphasizes the gee - whiz, how - did - he - do - that aspect of his technique, as
if photorealism were merely a quest for verisimilitude.
But what would have happened
if photorealism didn't win out?
Not exact matches
Sun - dappled streams, swaying trees and an almost palpable sense of weather shock with their
photorealism —
if this is what animation has become, the computers have won.
If you're looking for a Hamptons connection to
Photorealism, there's plenty of them.
As
if coming full circle, Close may be said to have reinvigorated the genre of
Photorealism just when everyone had assumed it had been relegated to history.
If so, then the lurid
photorealism of Mr. Bickerton's technique finds a conceptual justification in its alienating finesse.