The Face No. 61
5th Anniversary Special — Magazine of the Decade / Mickey Rourke
The Face No. 61, May 1985, is the magazine's fifth-anniversary special, presented on the object as a 132-page 'Magazine of the Decade' issue with Mickey Rourke on the Greg Gorman-photographed cover.
Read the catalogue note →- Publication
- The Face
- Condition
- Good+ / VG−
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages present.
- Date
- May 1985
Catalogue note
The Face No. 61, May 1985, is the magazine's fifth-anniversary special, presented on the object as a 132-page 'Magazine of the Decade' issue with Mickey Rourke on the Greg Gorman-photographed cover. Rather than a conventional monthly issue, it explicitly takes stock of the first half of the 1980s through music, film, fashion, design, architecture, politics, sport and youth culture. Features include the making of Mad Max 3, Mickey Rourke, Morrissey, Bodymap, Sean Penn, Tim Roth, Miranda Richardson, Yohji Yamamoto, Katharine Hamnett and Jean Paul Gaultier, alongside a four-page five-years-with-The-Face exhibition guide.
Why this object matters
The fifth-anniversary retrospective includes a four-page exhibition guide, making the magazine’s own early historicisation part of the object. That substantial documentary component, rather than the anniversary number alone, justifies outstanding 8.8 importance.
Evidence limits: No new physical inspection or collation was performed. Copy-specific conclusions remain limited to the retained catalogue and accession evidence.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.8 / 10.
This is a curatorial judgement, not a measurement accurate to one tenth or a market valuation. Read the explanation and its evidence limits together.
How Archive Importance is assessed →Inside this issue
Contents have not yet been indexed. This does not mean the issue contains no relevant material.
Explore indexed magazine contents →Use this record
Cite this object
Include the date you accessed this record when citing it.
Explore further
Connections use the catalogue’s named people, organisations and themes.