The Face No. 39
New Order Exclusive — No Hiding Place
July 1983 issue of The Face, No. 39, built around a New Order exclusive under the cover line 'No Hiding Place', with Stephen Morris photographed by Kevin Cummins. The contents place the band alongside Billy Connolly, D-Train, Terry Hall, Tracey Thorn, Kenneth Anger, Robert Wyatt, Julie Burchill, Russian television, street hockey and high-street fashion.
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- The Face
- Condition
- Good+ / Very Good−
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages present.
- Date
- July 1983
Catalogue note
July 1983 issue of The Face, No. 39, built around a New Order exclusive under the cover line 'No Hiding Place', with Stephen Morris photographed by Kevin Cummins. The contents place the band alongside Billy Connolly, D-Train, Terry Hall, Tracey Thorn, Kenneth Anger, Robert Wyatt, Julie Burchill, Russian television, street hockey and high-street fashion. The issue is a particularly strong document of The Face's early-1980s fusion of post-punk music, fashion, film and graphic design. Its rear cover preserves a contemporary Koyaanisqatsi advertisement naming Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass, extending the object into contemporaneous experimental-film culture.
Why this object matters
Cummins’s New Order image and the Anger/Wyatt/Thorn contents, with the Koyaanisqatsi advertisement, create an outstanding post-punk and experimental-film document. The original issue retains 8.8 for this specific combination.
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Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.8 / 10.
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