The Face Vol. 2 No. 6
March 1989 · Pet Shop Boys · “Year of the Bat” / Batman at 50 · Miami bass · Mondino / Sednaoui fashion
March 1989 issue of The Face centred on Pet Shop Boys during a major collaborative period, alongside a 50th-anniversary Batman feature, 'The Bass That Ate Miami' on Miami bass, Philippe Halsman/Salvador Dalí material and substantial fashion photography. The issue captures the magazine’s late-1980s mix of pop music, club culture, comics/cinema and high-fashion image-making.
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- The Face
- Condition
- Very Good− appearance from supplied photographs.
- Completeness
- Main magazine appears intact from the supplied front cover, rear cover and contents page; no page-by-page collation has been performed and no separately issued premium or supplement has been established.
- Date
- March 1989
Catalogue note
March 1989 issue of The Face centred on Pet Shop Boys during a major collaborative period, alongside a 50th-anniversary Batman feature, 'The Bass That Ate Miami' on Miami bass, Philippe Halsman/Salvador Dalí material and substantial fashion photography. The issue captures the magazine’s late-1980s mix of pop music, club culture, comics/cinema and high-fashion image-making.
Why this object matters
The Miami-bass feature, Batman retrospective and Halsman/Dalí material make an unusually coherent pop, club and visual-culture document. Retain Gold at 9.1 for the specific original contents.
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: 9.1 / 10 · Gold Star.
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