Full Description
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift celebrates The Face's most iconic portraits from 1980-2004. It explores the magazine's role in the evolution of style photography and its international and enduring impact on visual culture.
The Face is the original, definitive, style bible - a ground-breaking magazine that has radically disrupted youth culture in Britain and beyond since its launch in 1980. Known for its striking design, bold, inclusive content and innovative photography, the magazine has launched the careers of many leading photographers, writers, designers, stylists and models.
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift includes portraits of iconic sitters including Kate Moss, Annie Lennox, Kurt Cobain, Iggy Pop, Snoop Dogg, David Bowie, Ewan McGregor, Madness, The Sex Pistols, and Kylie Minogue. It features the voices of some of the key contributors to the magazine and celebrates the ongoing legacy of the magazine's imagery in British art, design and culture. It showcases striking portrait photographs from the likes of Miles Aldridge, Elaine Constantine, Corinne Day, David LaChapelle and Juergen Teller, alongside selected covers from the print magazine.
Contents
Director Forward
Images with Attitude:Photography in the Face - By Sabina Jaskot Gill
If You Know, You Know - An Incoversation with Nick Logan and Lee Swillingham
Fearless Modernity: Portraits of Musicians - By Pete Paphides
Images 1980-1989
A New Vocabulary - An Inconversation with Neville Brody, Jill Furmanovsky and Shelia Rock.
Sprit of Buffalo - By Jamie Morgan
Enhance Reality - An inconversation with Norbert Schoemet and Stephane Sednaoui
Images 1990-1999
This Is It! Growing up with The Face - An Inconversation with Elaine Constantine, Glen Luchford, and Nancy Rhode.
Writing Style: The New Journalism of The Face - By Ekow Eshun.
Images 2000-2004
Culture IRL: A new era for The Face - By Matthew Whitehouse.
Endnotes
Magazine Credits
Picture Credits
Acknowledgements
