Inside the magazines
233 selected entries across 20 issues: titles, printed pages and source-checked credits.
The Material Record
Research the archive
Read the objects more closely: contents, contributors, publication runs and discoveries from the catalogue.
Publication runs
See which issues of The Face, i-D and Dazed are catalogued, grouped by year and printed numbering.
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Notes from the archive
One issue, several photographic voices
What contents pages reveal when a cover credit is only the beginning.
Checking the Warhol supplement
Why an announcement and the completeness of an individual copy are different kinds of evidence.
Finding Signal to Noise inside The Face
Four contents pages provide a route into a graphic narrative published among fashion, music and club culture.
What makes a meaningful connection?
Reading across formats, editions and creative practices in The Material Record.
Signal to Noise: from Prelude to Conclusion
A seven-issue reading sequence through The Face, June–December 1989, with printed page references and evidence limits.
Recently enriched records
The Face No. 72
Added 11 selected contents and credit entries, checked against the registered photograph.
The Face No. 59
Added 12 selected contents and credit entries, checked against the registered photograph.
The Face No. 45
Added 17 selected contents and credit entries, checked against the registered photograph.