THING, the revolutionary magazine that chronicled the birth of Chicago’s queer, Black club culture
DeForrest Brown, Jr. takes us inside the countercultural publication that served as a relic of desire and community-building before the internet
Lukasz Pukowiec captures moments of sun-soaked calm in Zanzibar
The photographer provides warm glimpses of life in the Tanzanian archipelago
Dawoud Bey’s ‘Street Portraits’ are a radical recentering of the Black community
The legendary photographer speaks with curator Natasha Egan about his relationship to his subjects and the institutional response to Black Lives Matter
Torkwase Dyson dives into the history of Black liberation with ‘Bird and Lava’
The painter on Black Compositional Thought, the climate crisis, and how scuba diving informs her work
To Marta Pawłowska and Paolo Musa, the body is a canvas
The model and photographer's new project is a journey of self-exploration and creative confidence
Blueprints for a better world: Messages of hope
For Document’s F/W 2020 issue, Tao Lin, Rhea Dillon, and Rachel Rabbit White reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re headed
Blueprints for a better world: proposals and manifestos
The Guerrilla Girls, Zegna's Alessandro Sartori, and architect Charles Renfro present concrete ideas for a kinder, more sustainable and just future
Blueprints for a better world: Rethinking the role of community
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2020 issue, we invited a selection of the culture’s most compelling creative minds to envision a new way of living
Donald Judd’s radical departure from monochrome
For our Spring/Summer 2020 issue, a close look at the artist’s annotated preparatory collages for his colorful late sculpture
“When I look at you, do you see me?” Painter Amoako Boafo urges us to consider the complexities of blackness
For Document No. 16, curator Osei Bonsu spoke with the painter about his upbringing in Ghana, creating space for black expression in Vienna, and balancing...
Judy Chicago’s 1983 sketches still threaten the patriarchy
The artist speaks to Nancy Princenthal about environmentalism and how she used fashion to expand our concept of the divine
Haegue Yang counters sensory and linguistic isolation with a new artistic grammar
The artist tells a visual story of kinship between humans and hardware with multi-sensory collages for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.
The body as spectacle: Hayv Kahraman’s contorted female forms personify trauma and resistance
The artist examines the human ability to reemerge from oppressive states in this portfolio for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.
Art, decadence, and religion: Francesco Vezzoli reinterprets a French literary legend at Musee D’Orsay
An exhibition exploring the many artistic stages of Joris-Karl Huysmans, as seen by Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli for Document Fall/Winter 2019.
Pope.L layers performances and haunted places to question dominant historical narratives
Coinciding with the artist's on-going show at the Whitney, Document revisits 'The Escape,' a profound meditation on space, convention, and liberation, in Document F/W 2019.
Borderlands: Mitch Epstein’s portfolio of America’s changing physical and social landscape
From gun-toting ranchers to sweeping mountain vistas, the photographer unravels the implicit and explicit politics of the US-Mexico border.
Vivian Suter sculpts her own meaning out of landscape painting
By allowing leaves and fruit to fall on her canvases, Suter invites the natural elements of Guatemala to become collaborators in her artistic process, in...
Tschabalala Self maps the intricacy of the black aesthetic
In her portfolio for Document S/S 2019, the artist layers and collages fabrics in a movement toward black beings existing without compromise.
Carmen Winant is taking vintage covergirls and shining a new, abstracted spotlight on them
The artist pounds, massages, and wrinkles images of Playboy models into radical feminist art in Document S/S 2019.
The climate activists fighting for our future, from the deep south to Canadian north
Photographer Laurence Ellis documents the fight against rising sea levels and Big Oil in a photo essay for Document S/S 2019.
Ming Smith’s ‘Strange Fruit’ reveals the specters of American history
The photographer’s experiments in shadow and light reform gender and racial boundaries in a portfolio for Document S/S 2019.
Garry Winogrand’s illusive color photography receives its due at The Brooklyn Museum
Ahead of the exhibition, Document S/S 2019 featured a portfolio of the late photographer's color work with an introduction by Mitch Epstein.
Liz Johnson Artur captures black love and non-binary nightlife in London
The Russian-Ghanaian photographer presents her portfolio ‘Return to Forever’ for Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.
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...
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...
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.
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...
Sterling Ruby’s Basin Theology
From his studio in Los Angeles, the artist created an exclusive portfolio—fusing garments with shards exploded in a kiln—for Document Spring/Summer 2014.
Gentlemen, watch your wallets
John Waters curates and captions a never-before-seen selection of Karlheinz Weinberger images.
The first cut is the deepest
Hairstylist Holli Smith started out trimming trees. She's now one of the top artists in her trade, cutting right to the soul of her model's...
Jack Pierson automates his artistic impulses
The photographer and artist created this portfolio of golden watercolors as a push to get away from the brain and into the hand, a decompressing...
A retrospective into Erwin Blumenfeld’s push for radical photography
Fine art photographer Erwin Blumenfeld’s mesmerizing techniques in and out of the darkroom graced the the world’s finest fashion publications. Vince Aletti explores the man...
This is the New York skyline circa 1980
Glenn O'Brien remembered the atmosphere in 1980 New York, ever present in the timeless beauty of Edo Bertoglio's photographs.
See the vibrant faces of London’s Notting Hill Carnival
Photographer Edd Horder documented the people and fashion of London's annual Caribbean summer street festival.
Christelle De Castro zooms in on downtown NYC in ‘Citizens of the Bowery’
Christelle De Castro photographed and documented 60 denizens of the Bowery for the citizenM exhibition and documentary Citizens of the Bowery.
Stef Mitchell captures a haunting adolescence in ‘One Damn Thing After Another’
The photographer captures the blur of transitioning from childhood to adulthood in her trademark poetic approach.
“It’s like a blood bath”: Inside the student protests rattling Bangladesh
Document's New Vanguard Special Reportage winner Tahia Farhin Haque reports from the front lines of the student protests in Dhaka.
In celebration of summer holidays, Document 12 contributors bring us to their favorite places
Jil Sanders's Lucie Meier embarks on a journey to the mountains of Zermatt, while coder Fereshteh Forough travels to her favorite park in Afghanistan.
In the laboratory where the future of flight is being born
One photographer's close look at Imperial College London's Aerial Robotics department where the future of drone flight is being hatched.
Documenting the endless appetites of ‘starving artists’
'FOOD SEX ART,' which opens at the Ryan Lee Gallery this week, dispels the idea of artistic penury with a survey of artistic indulgence from...
A new cross-cultural book series will help you ‘unlearn’ the tired narratives on Asian identity
Volume One of FAR-NEAR approaches the cultural complications of Asian identity with artworks free from the pressures of place, expectation and stereotype.
Drenched and rapturous, New York City’s Dance Parade celebrates a new chapter
With the repeal of the repressive Cabaret Laws that had been a thorn in the side of club goers for a century, New York City...
Katharina Grosse rejects your idea that painting is archaic
Known for work that takes place on a captivating scale, the painter discusses a technique that operates far beyond the realm of one dimension for...
50 years later, a new look at the 1968 Paris protests from a lost archive
Hidden away for half a century, rare photographs by a young freelancer captured the chaos and optimism of three weeks of social unrest known as...
The world through a pinhole: the unseen paintings of Howardena Pindell
The artist and social activist Howardena Pindell shares the never-before-seen pointillist experiments that would go on to mark her signature painting style—now the focus of...
The endless drawings of Joan Jonas
Never before published drawings by Joan Jonas that were inspired by a “Female Devouring Ghost” perched on the shore between life and death.
Rineke Dijkstra and capturing the awkward blooms of youth
With The Louisiana Book, the Dutch photographer captures the essence of youth untamed and in the wild.
One student’s perspective on the March For Our Lives
Photographs by a student at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Maryland capture an historic day of demonstration in Washington, D.C.
Seeing is believing: The outsider art avatars of Britain’s CB radio underground
A new book collects the zany world of "eyeball cards" used amongst Britain's CB radio users in the late 70s and early 80s.
