Document Journal – Issue #21

For the second half of our tenth anniversary celebration, we widen our aperture from the city outside our window to examine America as a whole—or, rather, as a labyrinth of localities, customs, and divergent perspectives that comprise the nation’s complexity.

What do values like individualism, freedom, and democracy represent amid all-encompassing polarization? What are the implications of an accelerating billionaire space race, or the fragmentation of the national psyche? What is it to be American today—and where do we go from here?

With Hari Nef, Nicolas Cage, Lupita Nyong’o, Emma Corrin, Kevin Abstract, David Sims, Rick Owens, John Carpenter, Lena Dunham, Craig McDean, Charles Atlas, Ron Athey, Mario Sorrenti, Theo Wenner, Liv Liberg, Thue Nørgaard, Gray Sorrenti, Waajeed, Richard Bush, Joshua Woods, Philip-Daniel Ducasse, Sarah Richardson, Tommy Pico, Lucia Pieroni, Max Pearmain, Rae Boxer, Venetia Scott, Jack Davison, Drew Zeiba, Pa Salieu, Joshua Citarella, DeForrest Brown Jr., Anicka Yi, Rachel Rabbit White, Ola-Oluwa Ebiti, David Benjamin Sherry, Ken Layne, Donatien Grau, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kandis Williams, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Ten Years of Aries with Sofia Prantera, Marfa by Eileen Myles, The American South by Jim Goldberg, Nudist Capital, USA by Laurence Ellis, and more.