I own the Madonna and Keith Haring magazines from this Lomazow tableau!.(Image via video still) This piece from today's CBS Sunday Morning profiling Dr.
Steven Lomazow, who owns 83,000 magazines, struck a chord with me. For most of my life, I was a magazine junkie. I would buy a dozen or more new titles every week, devouring their design, their content, their personality.
I would keep the ones I liked best, or — more commonly — keep tear sheets. I still have a gigantic collection of tear sheets that I recently digitized.
I liked magazines enough that they became the core of my eventual career, first in porn, then in teen magazines. Fifteen-plus years spent in their conception and production.