An Edited Photography Group

Devoted to fine photography .. in the traditions from Arbus to Adams. Arbus .. who chose to depict the world through images of the most bizarre amongst us and Adams who chose to romanticize nature with unrealistic tonalities and view camera grandiose distortions. Each of these artists is "realistic" but their work offers a realism that uses the credibility of photogrpahy to test the limits of surrealism .. of what we believe is real. Arbus monstrosities would be uninteresting if she had painted them and Adams' views of nature would be mere postcards if he had not used reality to transcend itself.

Comments and Contributions

AA is open to all for submission or critiques. If you do comment and want to point out that the image was seen in AA, we suggest that you mark your comment or image with this code:

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This is an Edited Group

The AA group is edited to assure that only serious efforts at photography will be posted. Most content is tolerated but obviously unreal images, e.g. images overly manipulated by photoshop or darkroom methods will be deleted. The gallery will also eliminate images that are simply records of places, even if the places themselves are special .. e.g. the pyramids are wonderful but that does not justify placing your image in the gallery. In a word, the images must a t least seem to be photographs of reality, if you can paint a photograph that is fine.

Qualified photographers are invited to participate as administrators/editors.