The word Photorealism was coined by Louis K. MeiselMeiselgallery.com in 1969 and appeared in print for the first time in 1970 in a Whitney Museum catalogue for the show "Twenty-two Realists."Meisel (1989), p. 12. It is also sometimes labeled as Super-Realism, New Realism, Sharp Focus Realism, or Hyper-Realism.
