Flashpoint! Reading Room at Printed Matter
2026-03-12 11:00 - 2026-05-31 18:00 (America/New_York) | Printed Matter, 231 11th Ave, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Printed Matter presents Flashpoint!, a traveling reading room exhibition organized by 10×10 Photobooks dedicated to protest photography in print. The presentation brings together a selection of photobooks, zines, posters, pamphlets, independent journals, and alternative newspapers from the 1950s to the present. Across these formats, photography emerges as both a tool of protest and a cultural artifact of resistance, capturing political struggles as they unfold and as they are later remembered.

On view March 12-May 31, 2026. Opening reception March 12, 6-8 pm

Related EventsProtest and Resistance PostersPanel Discussion at Printed MatterAdrian Franks, Arthur Fournier and Daylon OrrThursday, 2 April, 6 pmDetails

History Repeats Itself: Curating ProtestSponsored by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public LibraryPanel Discussion at The New York Public LibraryLa Tanya Autry and Maggie Mustard, moderated by Deirdre DonohueWednesday, 13 May, 6 pm

By placing photobooks alongside posters, DIY zines, pamphlets, and independent journals, Flashpoint! highlights the manifold roles photography plays in resistance movements. Many featured works are a direct product of activist intervention, while others are carefully constructed publications made retrospectively with the intention to contextualize a historical event. This diversity of works is reflected in their wide spectrum of aesthetic approaches, which range from raw and immediate to deliberate and methodical. Presented together, these materials prompt questions about how images circulate within movements, how urgency shapes visual language, and how protest is recorded (and reinterpreted) through print.

The Reading Room is structured thematically into seven broad sections: Anti, Gender, Displacement, Race & Class, Environment, Political, and War & Violence. Each features multiple sub-themes which document resistance related to anti-government, anti-globalization, women’s rights, AIDS, anti-apartheid, civil rights, anti-imperialism, workers’ rights, territorial disputes, student protests, national populism, anti-colonialism, revolution and gun violence, among others.

Authors and artists with works in this iteration of the Flashpoint! Reading Room:Laia Abril; Aghi; aka TAWLA; Devin Allen; Morgan Ashcom; Mathieu Asselin; Ruth-Marion Baruch & Pirkle Jones; Makeda Best; Lukas Birk; The Black Panthers; Steve Bloom, Laurie Bloomfield, Rick Kollektiff & Peter Magubane; Arthur Bondar; The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective; Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin; Julio Cesar Cardoso; Eric Timothy Carlson; Gilles Caron; Chestnut Burr: Kent State University; Alessandro Cinque; Ernest Cole; Tano D’Amico; Solmaz Daryani; Doris Derby; Roy Decarava, Jill Krementz, Danny Lyon & Marion Palfi; Emory Douglas; David Douglas Duncan; Robert Dunn; Thana Faroq; Harrell Fletcher; LaToya Ruby Frazier; Leonard Freed; Paul Fusco; Paolo Gasparini; Rosa Gauditano; Karolina Gembara; X González; Suzanne Gordon & Alan Copeland; Kris Graves; Philip Jones Griffiths; Anthony Hamboussi; Anthony Haughey; Lucy Helton; Tim Hetherington; Anthony Howarth; Sanja Iveković; Bahman Jalali & Rana Javadi; Katayoun Javan; Rigoberto Díaz Julían; Gilbert Kahn, Pierre Juillet, Christian Joubert & Michel Hermans; Kikuji Kawada; Carole Kismaric; Kazuo Kitai; Justine Kurland; Sonia Lenzi; Mary Levine & John Naisbitt; Émeric Lhuisset; March for Our Lives; Fred McDarrah; Susan Meiselas; Rafal Milach; Mashid Mohadjerin; Zed Nelson; Molly Neuman & Allison Wolfe; Satomi Nihongi; Mariette Pathy Allen; Jill Posener; Moises Saman; Kwon San-Ki, Park Seung-hwa, Song Hyeok, Lee Sohye & Lim Seok Hyun; Paul Seawright; Jordan Seiler; George Selley; Linda Simpson; Stephen Shames & Ericka Huggins; Abdo Shanan; W. Eugene Smith & Aileen M. Smith; Joel Sternfeld; Koji Taki, Takuma Nakahira, Yutaka Takanashi, Takahiko Okada & Daido Moriyama; Anastasia Taylor-Lind; Hiromitsu Toyosaki; Bas Vroege, Raoul Gottschling & Noemí; Brian Weil; Wellington Zinefest and Te Pūranga Takatāpui o Aotearoa; Koen Wessing; D’Angelo Lovell Williams; Carmen Winant; Dale Wittig; Ashima Yadava, and Xu Yong.

The presentation is based on Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present, an anthology published by 10×10 Photobooks in 2024, edited by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich.

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Original posters loaned by Fugitive Materials.

Printed Matter Hours:Monday ClosedTuesday–Saturday: 11 am–7 pmSunday: 11 am – 6 pm

Koji Taki, Provoke 3 (1969)

Rosa Gauditano, A mesma Luta (2021)

“O Que Elas Viram” Reading Room at Instituto Moreira Salles Photography Library
2026-03-17 10:00 - 2026-08-02 20:00 | Instituto Moreira Salles, Avenida Paulista, 2424, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Hosted by the IMS Paulista Photography Library in São Paulo, Brazil, O que elas viram: fotolivros históricos de mulheres / What They Saw Reading Room at the Instituto Moreira Salles draws from its extensive women’s photobook collection, which includes the recently acquired “Coleção 10×10 Photobooks: Fotolivros Históricos de Mulheres.” Composed of 106 photobooks by women, purchased by 10×10 Photobooks for research, documentation and exhibition purposes to support the publication and its international reading room tour, this collection augments the IMS Library’s already impressive holdings and ensures the ongoing visibility and accessibility of the What They Saw Collection of photobooks by women.

The IMS Library is a unique initiative in Brazil. With a capacity of 30,000 items, it aims to encourage research in the field of photography and contribute to the understanding of photography in its various forms of expression. The collection comprises publications on and about photography, also encompassing its developments in fields such as film, fashion, visual arts, and humanities.

17 March – 31 August 2026Tuesday to Sunday: 10 am to 8 pmFree admission

Tuesday, 17 March, 6:30 pm Opening Reception + Talkwith Russet Lederman from 10×10 PhotobooksInstituto Moreira Salles LibrarySala de Aula (IMS Library Mezzanine)Free admission. Tickets distributed 60 minutes before the event(Limit of 1 ticket per person)

Other Islands Book Fair in Brooklyn
2026-04-25 12:00 - 2026-04-26 18:00 | Other Island Book Fair / Pfizer Building, 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Join 10×10 Photobooks and friends at the Other Islands Book Fair!Saturday, 25 April12 pm – 8 pm

Sunday, 26 April12 pm – 6 pm

History Repeats Itself: Curating Protest
2026-05-13 18:00 - 19:15 | New York Public Library — 42nd Street, 476 5th Ave, New York, New York, 10018, United States
Curators Maggie Mustard and La Tanya Autry discuss how protest and resistance materials are selected, organized, and presented in museums and libraries. Moderated by Deirdre Donohue.

Hosted by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at The New York Public Library in association with Printed Matter.

Presented in collaboration with Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, a traveling reading room exhibition at Printed Matter organized by 10×10 Photobooks. Curators in the Library’s two photography divisions discuss how protest and resistance materials and archives are collected, organized, and shared with the public. They will explore the challenges of shaping exhibitions around grassroots social movements, as well as how these collections are preserved within institutions and made accessible.

Featuring presentations by Associate Curator in the Division of Photographs and Prints at the Schomburg Center La Tanya S. Autry and Assistant Curator of Photography Maggie Mustard, with a panel to follow moderated by Assistant Director of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs Deirdre Donohue.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

La Tanya S. Autry is the Associate Curator of the Division of Photographs and Prints at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. As an art historian with a specialty in photography, Black Studies, and museum studies, she has created essays, exhibitions, and programs focused on historical and current issues of Black life, memory, and ethical curatorial praxis. Before joining The New York Public Library, she co-produced Museums Are Not Neutral, a global movement that disavows propaganda that claims museums exist outside of historical and social production. Presently La Tanya is co-curating an exhibition featuring the work of Black women artists that will be on view September 2026 at the Schomburg Center.

Maggie Mustard is Assistant Curator of Photography in the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at The New York Public Library. She earned her PhD in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University, where her dissertation focused on Japanese postwar photographer Kawada Kikuji. Previous professional roles include the Marcia Tucker Senior Research Fellow at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University. Recent exhibitions curated or co-curated at the NYPL include New York Subways 1977: Alen MacWeeney (2023), and The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History (2024). Her upcoming exhibition The Art of Declaration, part of the NYPL’s initiative commemorating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, will open to the public in June 2026.

Deirdre Donohue, the Assistant Director of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs at The New York Public Library, previously served as the Stephanie Shuman Director of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections at the International Center of Photography, Graduate Faculty of both Pratt Institute’s School of Information and ICP/Bard’s Masters Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, as a Board Member of 10X10 Photobooks, Advisory Board of Penumbra Foundation, and was the Guest Editor of Aperture’s Photobook Review 014.
