Look Twice: The Paintings That Pass for Photographs

Hyperrealism is the name for painting so exact that a viewer can take the canvas for a camera's print. That confusion is deliberate. The brushwork seems to disappear, and the picture reads as a photograph until you step close enough to see that someone painted it. If one of these canvases hangs on a gallery wall in New York or Palm Beach, it asks you to slow down and look again before you decide what you are seeing.

With reporting from The Collector.