The Face Magazine—Culture Shift

260 x 320mmmm, 292 pages

Published 2025

The catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery, London, show

This new book celebrates The Face’s most iconic images from 1980–2004, including portraits and fashion shoots, highlighting the magazine’s enduring impact on visual culture. A vital addition to the history of the eighties and nineties, it reproduces photographs from the magazine.

Subjects include Kate Moss, Annie Lennox, Kurt Cobain, Iggy Pop, Snoop Dogg, David Bowie, Ewan McGregor, Madness, The Sex Pistols, and Kylie Minogue; photographers  include Miles Aldridge, Elaine Constantine, Corinne Day, David LaChapelle and Juergen Teller, alongside selected covers from the print magazine.

Plus essays from curator Sabina Jaskot-Gill, music writer Peter Paphides, photographers Norbert Schoerner and Stéphane Sednaoui and writer Ekow Eshun, and interviews including Neville Brody, Jill Firmanovsky and Sheila Rock. Current editor of the reluanched magazine Matthew Whitehouse adds his thoughts at the end too.