Document Journal

Above The Fold

Essential Daily Briefings

Music

The stories behind the most copied album covers in punk history

John Holmstrom and Peter Saville give the stories behind the album covers for the Ramones’s, Joy Division, and New Order.

Art

Vik Muniz, the Brooklyn artist giving Brazil’s destroyed relics new life

Document visited the São Paulo-born artist’s Clinton Hill studio during Frieze Week in New York.

Literature

Liana Finck’s 9 favorite picture books for proper adults

The New Yorker cartoonist tells Document about the books she can't put down, from absurdist comic strips to illustrated personal anecdotes.

Culture

An ode to gay t-shirts, from The Oscar Wilde Temple to The Wizard of Oz

As part of her annual zine ‘Gay Tees,’ writer Emily Manning goes through 16 playful and poignant t-shirts and the stories behind them.

Music

slowthai revives the raw energy of punk for today’s fractured Britain

With his debut album “Nothing Great About Britain,” the rapper blends punk anarchy with the purity of Daniel Johnston.

Art

Sandro Kopp’s all-seeing eyes express humanity’s purest form

In his show ‘mEYEcelium’ the artist uses portraits of eyes to capture the lingering presence of his friends and loved ones.

Art

Ming Smith’s otherworldly photographs of very earthly injustices

Following her artist portfolio in Document S/S 2019, Ming Smith speaks on representation, improvisation, and photography as a form of survival.

Art

Tom Hearn shares photos from his first, life-changing Ramones concert

The photographer saw the show in 1976 with Legs McNeil, John Holmstrom, and Ged Dunn.

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Conversations

Casual Encounters with Remarkable Minds

Art

Designer Hiroshi Fujiwara and artist Takashi Murakami on humility and the art of collaboration

The artists discuss streetwear, Orientalism, and the shifting demands of the art market for Document S/S 2019.

by David Aaron Brake

Blood, Christ, and shock value: the gospel according to Ron Athey

The underground performance artist talks to Slava Mogutin about penetration, catharsis, and spirituality for Document S/S 2019.

by Clara Malley

Critics Parul Sehgal and Teju Cole on the changing authority of words

The writers reflect on the strenuous, theatrical, and brutally confessional craft of contemporary criticism in Document S/S 2019.

by John Ortved

Samin Nosrat and José Andrés get to the root of the food industry’s malnourishment

The culinary giants discuss farming insecurity, workplace harassment, and the unsung merits of zucchini.

by Clara Malley

Photographer Mitch Epstein on the incisive eye of his mentor Garry Winogrand

As ‘Garry Winogrand: Color’ opens at The Brooklyn Museum, his former student tells Document why the emotive character of Winogrand's color photography still resonates today.

by Clara Malley

DJs Stud1nt and NK Badtz Maru on NYC nightlife, from Bossa to beach raves

Rising NYC techno magicians Izzy Barreiro and Nicole Kim discuss their dream venues, graveyard raves, and the false promise of club utopias.

by Hannah Ongley

John Waters and Edmund White decode death, sexting, and the flaws of Dalí

Ahead of Waters's new essay collection, 'Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder,' the writers reminisce on glory holes and redeem Warhol's legacy...

by Maraya Fisher

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Fashion Portfolios

Berluti FW19 by Alasdair McLellan and Mauricio Nardi

Photographer Alasdair McLellan and stylist Mauricio Nardi capture Berluti FW19 in an exclusive fashion portfolio for Document S/S 2019.

by Document Journal

Fashion Portfolio

Ermenegildo Zegna Couture by Marco Cella and Donatella Musco

Photographer Marco Cella and stylist Donatella Musco capture a sun-soaked

by Document Journal

Fashion Portfolio

Charlie Gates and Michael Darlington

The photographer and stylist visited the rugged coastline of southeast

by Document Journal

Fashion Portfolio

Dior Men by Ryan McGinley and Kim Jones

In collaboration with Dior Men and Kim Jones, Ryan McGinley

by Document Journal

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At Large

Essays and Exposés

Culture

‘The Village Voice’ nurtured New York’s preeminent thinkers—here are their untold stories

Writer Bob Morris reflects on the alternative weekly golden era with Hilton Als, Lynn Yaeger, Michael Musto, and Vince Aletti.

by Bob Morris

Fashion

Peter Saville’s fashion apocalypse now

The graphic artist discusses his relationships with Yohji Yamamoto and Adidas and why it’s time to ask the hard questions about the fashion industry.

by Hilary Moss

Fashion

Andre Walker’s uniquely candid approach to aesthetics basics

Hilton Als captures Andre Walker's ingenious, sensual world in a cross-cultural stream of consciousness.

by Hilton Als

Revisiting Suck magazine’s experiment in radical feminist pornography

Lynne Tillman and other contributors to Suck magazine look back and analyze the legacy that the transgressive magazine left behind.

by Alison M. Gingeras

At Alaska’s “ground zero” for climate change, a new generation of activists fights to preserve a vanishing way of life

Photographer Laurence Ellis and Peter H. Gleick chronicle Alaskans' efforts to fight climate change in Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.

by Peter Gleick

Politics

Has the internet broken the marketplace of ideas? Rethinking free speech in the Digital Age

Writer Cody Delistraty explores the limitations of free speech absolution in the era of social media for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.

by Cody Delistraty

Literature

Denham Fouts: The most expensive male sex worker in the world

So-called by novelist Christopher Isherwood, Denham Fouts was pursued by a Greek king, a German baron, a British viscount, and many, many more. Arthur Vanderbilt...

by Arthur Vanderbilt

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Documented

Visual Reportage and Artist Portfolios

Alex and Jaime

Alex and Jaime met as strangers at a support group in a nondescript part of London. Here, Alex describes their first encounter, as photographer Markn...

by Alexandera

Loie Hollowell’s bodily landscapes

Loie Hollowell's portfolio for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue marks a daring departure from the practice of early female abstractionists, reveling in the eroticism and ethereality...

by Andrianna Campbell

Ebony G. Patterson flashes her discordant opulence

Above, below, beneath provides a window into the political stakes of Ebony G. Patterson's decadent, intricate tapestries from Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.

by Ann Binlot

The fight of black America, through the lens of Gordon Parks

For Document Fall/Winter 2018, The Gordon Parks Foundation contributed an exclusive portfolio of his photographs from that watershed moment in 1963, accompanied by his own...

by Gordon Parks

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Best Of

Conversations

Noname speaks with Lakeith Stanfield about staying independent

Noname's new track, ‘Song 32,’ is just for her fans. In Document's Spring/Summer 2019 issue, she and Lakeith Stanfield talk dodging and chasing the spotlight.

by Maraya Fisher

Conversations

Sita Abellan talks to electroclash legend Kittin about defying haters and making history

The self-described technoprincess talks to Caroline Hervé (Miss Kittin) about proving yourself in an image-obsessed world.

by Hannah Ongley

Above the Fold

Photographing the everyday lives of Havana’s future boxing champions

With his new photo journal ‘Boxing in Havana,’ Dominick Sheldon celebrates Cuba's rich sporting history.

by Hannah Ongley

Above the Fold

Close Journal’s new issue will make you want to call your mom

The bi-coastal magazine explores the myriad meanings of "family" through fashion, art, photography, and design.

by Ann Binlot

Above the Fold

At Hedi Slimane’s triumphant Celine men’s debut

The designer’s Fall/Winter 2019 menswear collection for Celine arrived with rock star swagger, an electrifying soundtrack, and some seriously covetable outerwear.

by Hannah Ongley

Above the Fold

Aries, David Sims, and Jeremy Deller create a streetwear tribute to Stonehenge

Aries designer Sofia Prantera talks to Document about shooting a fashion campaign at the world's most famous Neolithic monument.

by Hannah Ongley

Above the Fold

The Asian designers of London transforming the meaning of culture

In the midst of globalization, appropriation, and rising nationalism, meet the designers redefining fashion's view of "the East."

by Lulu Yao Gioiello