What is a Maximum Picture or Maximum Photograph?
A Maximum Picture (maxipic) is a picture or photograph of another picture, photograph, or postcard (object), held by its photographer, taken in the same place depicted by the object, which makes the photograph, its object, and its background achieve maximum concordance (similarity).
Put it more simply by @meiadeleite: photos in which a postcard is put in front of the place where its picture was taken:
Mafra Palace Library
For us, Postcrossers, the object would be a postcard, of course! 
This is not a new concept. As pointed out by @jeffbh, photographer Kenneth Josephson has experimented with this type of art since the sixties, championing the idea of the photograph as an object.
The term maxi-picture was coined by @sebiusz on this post. Since I haven’t found any specific name given to these pictures, I thought it was fine to adopt the term.
But, what do you guys think? Feel free to participate in the poll below:
- Maximum Picture (maxipic or maxi-pic)
- Maximum Photograph (maxiphoto or maxi-photo)
0 voters
If you know of any other term used for these images, please let us all know.
Also, please share your own Maxipics with us on this thread. If it was used as a Wall Image better yet!
A good example of an Official Postcrossing Maxipic is @Idler’s one:
Here are a couple of mine taken a couple of days ago. I will share their Postcrossing link once they’re registered by their recipient:
(maxipic or maxiphoto actually make more sense to me, as a name).
