{"id":71211,"date":"2024-11-17T22:23:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T22:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hottype.club\/?p=60"},"modified":"2024-11-27T00:49:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T05:49:20","slug":"pictorial-paste-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/17\/pictorial-paste-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictorial Paste-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It took many years of patience, luck, and persistence (and more than one ill-advised outrageous price), but I have managed to collect just about every issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/bobmizer.org\/bobmizer\">Bob Mizer<\/a>\u2019s <em>Physique Pictorial<\/em>. (Vol. 2 no. 1, I know you\u2019re out there somewhere, but I probably can\u2019t afford you anymore.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tempImageJPlt4u-1024x719.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizer is best known for his photography and filmmaking, but less so for the design and typography of Physique Pictorial. In fact, the magazine always had a fairly crude, almost punk approach to its layout. Text and labels were often set with a typewriter, and you can see the evidence of its cost-and-paste production methods, from the first issue in 1951 all the way through to Mizer\u2019s last in 1990. Even though his last couple of issues feature cover titles made with crude digital fonts, the magazine\u2019s layout was very much an analog process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tempImagezmwgl7-1024x778.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When looking at the entire run of <em>Physique Pictorial<\/em>, it\u2019s clear that Mizer was pretty economical in his use of materials. That\u2019s not to say that the magazine looked cheap. In fact, I\u2019ve always been quite fond of the immediacy of the type and layouts, and Mizer\u2019s emphasis on the photography and illustrations. Over the years, though, Mizer used a handful of pieces of artwork for the cover masthead over and over again. Whether he did it for thrift or for variety in the covers, the same few title treatments appear periodically throughout the entire 40-or-so years of the magazine\u2019s run. Knowing that the magazine was assembled by hand, the reuse of these art elements suggest that Mizer kept the artwork on hand for decades, applying it as he saw fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tempImagegiiuHT-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tempImagenFUe4v-1024x712.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tempImage89GdDx-1024x729.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tempImagep9KJ5B-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took many years of patience, luck, and persistence (and more than one ill-advised outrageous price), but I have managed to collect just about every issue of Bob Mizer\u2019s Physique Pictorial. (Vol. 2 no. 1, I know you\u2019re out there somewhere, but I probably can\u2019t afford you anymore.) Mizer is best known for his photography &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/17\/pictorial-paste-ups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pictorial Paste-ups&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71218,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71211\/revisions\/71218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}