The Face Vol. 2 No. 47
August 1992 — Red Hot Chili Peppers / Flea & Anthony Kiedis by Corinne Day — Travellers talk back / Seattle grunge
The Face Vol. 2 No.
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- The Face
- Condition
- Good+ / Very Good− — complete and structurally sound, with visible edge, spine and corner wear and moderate handling consistent with a well-preserved 1992 magazine.
- Completeness
- Complete under the standing TMR magazine completeness rule. No missing pages, inserts, supplements or other issued components have been reported; no separate issued extra is evidenced by the supplied photographs.
- Date
- August 1992
Catalogue note
The Face Vol. 2 No. 47, August 1992, places Flea and Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers on the cover in a Corinne Day portrait at a pivotal moment for both the band and British youth culture. The issue pairs a major seven-page Chili Peppers feature with coverage of Soundgarden and Seattle grunge, L7, Faith No More, rock fashion and British rock managers, while the cover line “Travellers talk back” places the issue directly in the heated 1992 debate around traveller and free-festival culture. Corinne Day’s photography gives the issue additional significance as part of the documentary-inflected visual language that reshaped fashion and youth-magazine photography in the early 1990s.
Why this object matters
Corinne Day’s Chili Peppers portrait sits alongside Travellers talk back at a consequential moment in free-festival politics. The issue’s specific link between documentary photography, rock and traveller testimony warrants Gold at 9.0.
Evidence limits: Complete under the standing TMR magazine completeness rule. No missing pages, inserts, supplements or other issued components have been reported; no separate issued extra is evidenced by the supplied photographs.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9 / 10 · Gold Star.
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