15 March 2025

The Face Magazine: Culture Shift

 (The National Portrait Gallery, 15 March 2025)

Little is known about what happened in the 1980s, except that it was necessary in order to enable the 1990s. The 1990s were when modern fashion photography was born, in The Face magazine. With the ascent of Anna Wintour at Vogue and the retention of Peter Lindbergh, the establishment's takeover of the revolutionary had been complete. The raison d'être for The Face vanished.