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.
Hosted by the IMS Paulista Photography Library, "O Que Elas Viram" (What They Saw) Reading Room at the Instituto Moreira Salles in São Paulo, Brazil, draws from its extensive women’s photobook collection, which includes the recently acquired “Coleção 10×10 Photobooks: Fotolivros Históricos de Mulheres.”
By popular demand, “O que elas viram: fotolivros históricos de mulheres” (What They Saw) Reading Room at the Instituto Moreira Salles has been extended for an additional two weeks, through 16 August 2026. Praise for “O que elas viram” (What They Saw) Reading Room in Brazil:
10x10 Photobooks is pleased to announce a new grant cycle and call for applications as part of its ongoing photobook research grants program to encourage and support scholarship on under-explored topics in photobook history.
Join Printed Matter and 10×10 Photobooks for a salon discussion with archivists, book dealers, and artists Arthur Fournier (Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare), Adrian Franks, and Daylon Orr (Fugitive Materials), exploring the legacy of political protest posters.
