"Throughout the three chapters, there is a reference to Photo-rendering realists and explained in a footnote quoting from a 2005 Damian Hirst New York exhibition: "Take a photograph, and copy it meticulously, until your painting and the photograph are indistinguishable". This is not Photorealism at all but copying a photo, hardly even an art form and certainly nothing like Head's complex paintings though his work would be impossible without photos for reference."
I think you'll find that is Linda Chase's and Louis Meisel's definition of photorealism being quoted by Hirst. I will have to see this book before final judgement, but if Clive Head is not doing what Chase, Meisel and Hirst say is photorealism then I suggest you are wrong calling him a photorealisitic painter.
"Throughout the three chapters, there is a reference to Photo-rendering realists and explained in a footnote quoting from a 2005 Damian Hirst New York exhibition: "Take a photograph, and copy it meticulously, until your painting and the photograph are indistinguishable". This is not Photorealism at all but copying a photo, hardly even an art form and certainly nothing like Head's complex paintings though his work would be impossible without photos for reference."
I think you'll find that is Linda Chase's and Louis Meisel's definition of photorealism being quoted by Hirst. I will have to see this book before final judgement, but if Clive Head is not doing what Chase, Meisel and Hirst say is photorealism then I suggest you are wrong calling him a photorealisitic painter.