Things R Queer Postcard Set - Joseph Maida

Things R Queer Postcard Set

Photographer: Joseph Maida

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Published: 30th April 2019

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This uniquely designed postcard set features some of Joseph Maida’s most popular Things “R” Queer photographs from his popular Instagram feed @josephmaida. The 6 included perforated sheets divide into 24 individual cards, linking Maida’s series back to one of the first photo sharing platforms, the postcard.

In addition to yellow, orange, pink, green, and blue sheets of 4 postcards each, this set includes a special multicolor sheet highlighting the 4 photographs included in Aperture Foundation’s book and eponymous traveling exhibition Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography. Now Things “R” Queer can be mailed, framed, and collected!

Industry Reviews

Joseph Maida's prolific vision is campy, full of fantasy and critique of contemporary material culture. He shakes up national and cultural references, often relying on cliche and wordplay in the titles for success. The use of absurd juxtapositions, as well as the tinkering with perception and scale were prompted by a 1973 Duane Michals photographic work, which employs some similar strategies."

Susan Bright, Feast for the Eyes The Story of Food in Photography, Aperture, 2017


Maida's colorful sculptures exhibit a matter-of-fact, documentary-style that seems to suggest that the world is queer because it is observed in fragments of a larger picture and that the queerness lies not in the things themselves, but in the surety by which we label them as normal or abnormal.

Rachel Lowry, Time Lightbox, Sept 15, 2016


The New York based photographer Joseph Maida also questions who and what belongs in the kitchen in his 2014 "Things 'R' Queer," a series of gelatin, meringue and plastic tableaus: a gelatin birthday cake atop a tennis racket, a fake hamburger with an electricity meter attached to it. They are, he writes, "historically 'straight' in their aesthetics and lack of manipulation" but "undoubtedly queer in their campy visualization of a fantasy-cum-critique of contemporary material culture."

Emma Orlow, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, August 30, 2019


The Worlds Funny Instagrammers - @josephmaida

Ima Magazine, Spring 2017

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