On occasion of Flashpoint!, a traveling reading room exhibition dedicated to protest photography in print, Printed Matter and 10x10 Photobooks bring together archivists, book dealers and artists Arthur Fournier (Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare), Adrian Franks, and Daylon Orr (Fugitive Materials) for a panel discussion exploring the legacy of political protest posters.
Arthur Fournier is an independent broker specializing in twentieth-century archives and manuscripts. Over the past decade, he has placed significant collections in the arts, letters, and sciences with institutions including the Smithsonian, the Getty, Columbia University, Harvard, New York University, Penn State, Princeton, Yale, and the New York Public Library. His recent clients include the Malcolm McLaren estate, the Arthur Russell estate, The Wooster Group, Mudd Club co-founder Steve Mass, and Leonard Abrams, founder of the East Village Eye. A member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA), Fournier also buys and sells rare books, serials, and ephemera across all fields and genres. His specialties include primary source materials related to visual culture, the performing arts, twentieth-century social and cultural movements, and technologies of printing and the graphic arts.
Adrian Franks, known artistically as A.d.FRNK, is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and creative technologist with over 30 years of experience across design, advertising, art, and emerging technology. Raised in Atlanta, his career evolved alongside the digital revolution, leading to work for global brands including Toyota, Coca-Cola, and AT&T, and pioneering projects such as an early Apple Watch app. His creative reach spans film collaborations with Spike Lee, award-winning design, and exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Adrian lives and creates in New York City with his wife, Nicole, and their son, Garvey.
Daylon Orr is an archivist, bookseller, and publisher, and the founder and director of Fugitive Materials. Fugitive Materials organizes, catalogs, and places archives, ephemera, and primary-source documents with universities and museums around the world. We specialize in global material cultures of resistance: the detritus of radical social movements, queer histories, counterculture, pedagogy, urbanism, uprisings, and art. We also publish books, zines, and catalogs, oftentimes prompted by archival materials we handle. Fugitive Materials is committed to the preservation of queer, underground, and oppositional histories through archiving, publishing, and bookselling.
