Photorealism refers to:

A. a movement in photography that explores various levels of representation.
B. a movement in sculpture that uses actual objects.
C. a movement in art that rejects the camera as a viable art tool.
D. a movement in painting that explores the way a camera "sees."
E. a movement that involves documentation in film.

D
With photorealism, photography replaced sketching as the primary way of gathering visual information, and the resulting photograph itself became the subject of the painting.