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BORN FREE, BORN EQUAL
Joseph Maida, Ansel Adams
November 7, 2023
Hardback with image wrap cover
ISBN: 9781734018097
Dimensions: 8.25 x 10.75 inches
Pages: 184
$55.00
Joseph Maida’s new photographic monograph BORN FREE, BORN EQUAL raises vital questions about democracy, justice, memory, and representation in the United States today.
JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG
I grew up at the time of World War II. The irony was, we were fighting a war against racism and yet, by an Executive Order of President Roosevelt, people who had done nothing wrong—except they were of Japanese ancestry—were interned in camps far from their homes. That was a dreadful mistake.
Accra Shepp, Salamishah Tillet
2022
Cloth hardcover with dust jacket
Dimensions: 9 x 11.5 inches
Pages: 248 pages
ISBN: 9780999782149
$ 65.00
Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice brings together two bodies of socially-engaged photographic portraiture by Accra Shepp, who has documented New York City’s Occupy Wall Street movement starting in 2011 and its racial justice/BLM protests since 2020.
Hilton Als
Accra Shepp’s “Radical Justice,” is a vision. Clear-eyed and unique, Shepp’s photographs are also a powerful record of hope and resiliency, framed by a compassionate eye interested in these times, and in times to come. An uplifting and necessary book.
DEAN SAMESHIMA, INA JANG, BRANDON ISRALSKY
2019
Saddle stapled book, waxed poster cover
Dimensions: Book — 9 x 12.75 inches, Poster — 36 x 25 inches unfolded
Pages: 64 pages
ISBN: 9780999782125
$ 40.00
Utopia Centerfolds At Play brings together three artists' projects - Brandon Isralsky's Centerfolds and Fuckboys, Ina Jang's Utopia, and Dean Sameshima's Young Men At Play - to constellate explorations of censorship, ephemera, and sexuality across gender and social spectrums. While each artist's work employs unique visual strategies, they all begin with culturally specific, appropriated images of the body, which they treat to speak to their current perspectives, connecting geographies, nationalities, and ethnicities. The book features a uniquely designed fold-out cover that doubles as a poster as well as a must-read introduction by Mizz Even.
Zak Krevitt, Molly Matalon, Corey Olsen, Pat O'Malley, Tim Schutsky, Caroline Tompkins
2019
Box set printed PVC covers, sand colored cloth and red foil stamped slipcase
Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
Pages: Six individual, 36-page, full color booklets, One 80-page full color booklet
ISBN: 978-1-7340180-1-1
$ 100.00
This limited-edition, seven-book set brings together 6 photographers — Zak Krevitt, Molly Matalon, Corey Olsen, Pat O’Malley, Tim Schutsky, and Caroline Tompkins — through the books’ editor, Joseph Maida, their mentor and fellow artist, who taught them as undergraduate students at New York’s School of Visual Arts from 2010-2014. Included in the set is a monographic volume by each photographer edited by Maida as well as a compilation book in which Maida constellates their work in a dynamic visual conversation through a thought-provoking edit and sequence.
Joseph Maida, Zackary Drucker
2022
Hardback
Dimensions: 9.5 x 11 inches
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9781734018080
$ 65.00
Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice brings together two In A Third Look, Joseph Maida reflects on Lee Friedlander’s nudes from the 1970’s and 80’s, reinterpreting this series as a cutting edge homage both to Friedlander, the modernist titan of photography, and to LGBTQIA+ bodies across gender and identity spectra.
Foreword by Zackary Drucker, The (Un)Certainty of Seeing
Hanya Yanagihara
Joseph Maida brings a sense of curiosity, respect, and tenderness to all his projects and subjects. This latest series, a loving and provocative inquiry into what makes us human, and how we shape our sense of selves, is no different.
Ryker Allen, Jack Pierson
2019
Limited Edition Hot foil stamped box and book
Dimensions: 4.5 x 5.75 inches
Pages: 30: 15-fold accordion
ISBN: 978-0-9997821-1-8
$ 125.00
Using medium-format film photography alongside notes, postcards, and other mixed media, non-binary photographer Ryker Allen explores intimacy, emotional trauma, and the fragility of masculinity in their first photo book Cherry Blossom. Ryker tells the true story of a fleeting relationship between two young people by documenting the first time they fall in love and the way their friendship complicates everything. This visual narrative is presented in a uniquely designed accordion-style book.
To accompany Ryker’s intimate first monograph, legendary artist and Boston School photographer, Jack Pierson, a pioneer of the style of photography in which Ryker works, leads a cross-generational conversation about queer love and the lens.
JACK PIERSON
But as a photographer, don’t you feel like you have both a right and a duty to create a scenario you want? And how come you didn’t say, “Oh, can we get a picture of us kissing? I never got that when we were dating.
@JOSEPHMAIDA
Postcards
Dimensions: 10 x 10 inches
Pages: Six 10×10 inch perforated sheets, each with four 5×5 inch postcards
ISBN: 9780999782132
$ 24.00
This uniquely designed postcard set features some of Joseph Maida’s most popular Things “R” Queer photographs from his 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.
