VICE Vol. 3 · No. 11
The Immersionism Issue / Living With — UK edition · cover photograph by Jerry Hsu
UK VICE Volume 3 Number 11, a free-distribution issue with the cover line Living With and a cover photograph credited to Jerry Hsu. Its contents match the international Immersionism Issue, also described during production as the Journalism Issue. The photographed contents bring together reportage concerning Berlin street life, the IRA, Milan's criminal milieu, a Hasidic wedding and Hurricane Katrina, alongside Richard Kern's Mexico Pretty and an interview with Ben Weasel. The rear cover is American Apparel's Pantytime advertisement, including London shops at Carnaby Street and Curtain Road. The object connects early British VICE publishing, documentary photography, music culture and fashion advertising; December 2005 is a provisional UK date.
Read the catalogue note →- Publication
- VICE
- Condition
- Very Good− (provisional photographic assessment)
- Completeness
- Front cover, rear cover and contents page 12 are evidenced. Contents advertise material through page 96; this is not a verified total page count. Interior pagination has not been collated page by page. No reliable evidence located establishes an originally issued supplement or free gift, so no missing extra is asserted.
- Date
- December 2005 (provisional)
Catalogue note
UK VICE Volume 3 Number 11, a free-distribution issue with the cover line Living With and a cover photograph credited to Jerry Hsu. Its contents match the international Immersionism Issue, also described during production as the Journalism Issue. The photographed contents bring together reportage concerning Berlin street life, the IRA, Milan's criminal milieu, a Hasidic wedding and Hurricane Katrina, alongside Richard Kern's Mexico Pretty and an interview with Ben Weasel. The rear cover is American Apparel's Pantytime advertisement, including London shops at Carnaby Street and Curtain Road. The object connects early British VICE publishing, documentary photography, music culture and fashion advertising; December 2005 is a provisional UK date.
Why this object matters
The Hsu cover and geographically varied immersion reporting make substantial evidence of VICE’s journalistic self-definition. Retain outstanding 8.7 with the provisional UK date and uncollated pagination clearly qualified.
Evidence limits: Front cover, rear cover and contents page 12 are evidenced. Contents advertise material through page 96; this is not a verified total page count. Interior pagination has not been collated page by page. No reliable evidence located establishes an originally issued supplement or free gift, so no missing extra is asserted.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.7 / 10.
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