Richard Estes Painting New York City

David Carrier | The Brooklyn Rail | 3rd June 2015

The photorealist pioneer Richard Estes has been painting New York’s visually chaotic streetscape for over 50 years. But why bother with the minute detail of photorealism when cameras are available?  David Hockney, himself a prolific user of cameras, is quite clear: “A camera cannot see what a human can see, there is always something missing”