photographic realism

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Mr. Pinkney worked primarily in watercolor and pencil, a combination that, in his hands, produced almost photographic realism while still allowing for imaginative flourishes.

From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2021

Ms. Stevens is in the process of mastering a loose, somewhat photographic realism that may reflect an admiration for the paintings of Edward Hopper and Eric Fischl.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2020

Liu, who has been making dramatic paintings of turn-of-the-century Chinese prostitutes, laborers and soldiers since the 1980s, has sometimes seemed stuck within a limited vocabulary of photographic realism and extravagantly dripping paint.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2015

It’s not clear whether Leonardo intended it as a work of photographic realism or an idealized version of his subject.

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2012

But it was precisely this photographic realism and unreserve which gave the book its peculiar value.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson