Featuring both iconic and never-before-published works, this eye-popping volume presents one of the first and finest collections of Photorealism in the United States. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Photorealism: Beginnings to Today at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the book presents seventy works from the late 1960s to recent years. AUTHOR: Miranda Lash is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Louis K. Meisel is the owner of the Louis K. Meisel Gallery and the man who coined the word 'Photorealism'. Russell Lord is Curator of Photography, Prints, and Drawings, New Orleans Museum of Art. SELLING POINTS: * Includes an essay by Louis K. Meisel, the foremost dealer in Photorealist painting 120 colour illustrations