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TMR-000272Magazine object
The Face No. 28
Jean-Paul Goude: The Man Who Made Grace Jones / Midge Ure / Culture Club / The Haçienda
August 1982★ Gold Star object
August 1982 issue of The Face, No. 28, centred on an exclusive feature on Jean-Paul Goude and the visual construction of Grace Jones, with a Midge Ure interview, an early Culture Club feature, Defunkt, Eddie & Sunshine, Julie Burchill and a design feature on the newly opened Haçienda. The issue is unusually valuable as a near-contemporary document of three intersecting strands of early-1980s visual culture: Goude/Jones image-making, Culture Club immediately before their UK breakthrough, and Ben Kelly and Sandra Douglas discussing the Haçienda only months after it opened.
Read the catalogue note →- Publication
- The Face
- Condition
- Good+
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages present.
- Date
- August 1982
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Catalogue note
August 1982 issue of The Face, No. 28, centred on an exclusive feature on Jean-Paul Goude and the visual construction of Grace Jones, with a Midge Ure interview, an early Culture Club feature, Defunkt, Eddie & Sunshine, Julie Burchill and a design feature on the newly opened Haçienda. The issue is unusually valuable as a near-contemporary document of three intersecting strands of early-1980s visual culture: Goude/Jones image-making, Culture Club immediately before their UK breakthrough, and Ben Kelly and Sandra Douglas discussing the Haçienda only months after it opened.
Why this object matters
The near-contemporary Haçienda design discussion with Kelly and Douglas, Goude/Jones image-making and pre-breakthrough Culture Club form an exceptional original intersection. Retain Gold and increase modestly to 9.3 for the specific combined evidence.
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: 9.3 / 10 · Gold Star.
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
13 selected entries checked against the photographed contents and credits. This is a partial index; page numbers are printed references, not a physical collation.
View the source photograph ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-06
Selected legible entries from the registered photograph. Single page numbers are printed starting pages; ranges reproduce the printed range. This is not a page-by-page inspection or a complete contents transcription.
Welcome to the Club No. 1 — Culture Club
Ray Lowry — Men in Enormous Suits
The contents name Ray Lowry but do not specify a writing or artwork role.
Defunkt — The Thermonuclear Sweat
The Missing Link? — Eddie & Sunshine
Julie Burchill — Outgrowing the Outsider
Writing: Julie Burchill
The Art of Jean Paul Goude
Subject / model: Jean-Paul Goude
Goude is the featured artist; authorship of this feature is not inferred.
Albums
Writing: Ian Birch
Style — A Costume Drama in Two Acts
Midge Ure — The Face Interview
Subject / model: Midge Ure
Welcome to the Club No. 2 — Hacienda
The Films of Jack Nicholson
Subject / model: Jack Nicholson
Publisher / editor
Editing: Nick Logan
Printed masthead credit.
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Recorded contributions · 5
- Neville BrodyDesignSource verified
The photographed issue masthead explicitly names Neville Brody as designer. The Face No. 28 — photographed contents and credits
Find other objects with this contribution → - Julie BurchillWritingSource verified
Julie Burchill — Outgrowing the Outsider (p. 27). The Face No. 28 — photographed contents
Find other objects with this contribution → - Jean-Paul GoudeSubject / modelSource verified
The Art of Jean Paul Goude (p. 28). Goude is the featured artist; authorship of this feature is not inferred. The Face No. 28 — photographed contents
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Midge Ure — The Face Interview (p. 42). The Face No. 28 — photographed contents
Find other objects with this contribution → - Nick LoganEditingSource verified
Publisher / editor. Printed masthead credit. The Face No. 28 — photographed contents
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