Quote - Why would photorealism be excluded from interpretation and invoking emotions? A photograph, even a landscape photograph can invoke emotion.

To be clear, I typically equate photorealism with renders of portraits, architexture, and inatimate objects, like automobiles and other things.

Please understand, I'm not trying to define art, but, personally, those types of renders do nothing for me on an emotional leve.  I enjoy looking at them, and I greatly admire the technical skill that went into creating them, but that's all the effect they have on me.