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:
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.
