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The Sartorialist
Scott Schuman just wanted to take photographs of people that he met on the streets of New York who he felt looked great.
His now-famous and much-loved blog, thesartorialist.com, is his showcase for the wonderful and varied sartorial tastes of real people across the globe. This book is a beautiful anthology of Scotts favorite images, accompanied by his insightful commentar...more
His now-famous and much-loved blog, thesartorialist.com, is his showcase for the wonderful and varied sartorial tastes of real people across the globe. This book is a beautiful anthology of Scotts favorite images, accompanied by his insightful commentar...more
Paperback, 512 pages
Published
August 25th 2009
by Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Scott Schuman is The Sartorialist. Not a serial killer, although wouldn't that be an excellent serial killer? No, The Sartorialist is a blogger - and before you roll your eyes, dude, Scott Shuman is a blogger who doesn't write very much, and who takes extremely fine pictures.
He takes pictures of people who know how to dress themselves. Aging Italian playboys. Tiny, youthful French fashion editors. Artists, housepainters, Carolina Herrera, Kanye West. He has a weakness for beautifully...more
He takes pictures of people who know how to dress themselves. Aging Italian playboys. Tiny, youthful French fashion editors. Artists, housepainters, Carolina Herrera, Kanye West. He has a weakness for beautifully...more
I sure don't have any fashion sense, but I like looking at people who do.
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This is a very cool book. It's almost totally pictures. It's based on a blog of the same name. The author (a fashion photographer) has filled the book with pictures of people he encounters in everday life who are really well dressed (in the sense of being unique and really put together in an interesting way) or who exude personal style. The clothes are not just what would be considered the most fashionable, but rather the emphasis is on how the individual has combined things in ways that are...more
I'm feeling fashionably uninspired, so I picked this up while shopping. It's an enjoyable book with great photos and some fascinating fashions. The biggest disappointment is how 'fashion' it is - I mean, how many of the people are clearly models or work in fashion. Perhaps this is because Scott Schuman works in fashion and he doesn't know anything else - but it's clearly warped his idea of what is normal in terms of women. Every woman is painfully thin and the one who looks closer to normal - ye...more
mmmm, yummy, yummy, yummy!
The book is partly about fashion but it's his composition of color that I notice over and over again. It's a thick little f***er of a book but it's you still want more when it's done.
Some things I learned about fashion from this book are as follows:
1. Fashionable people smoke.
2. Fashionable people ride bikes (cute bikes,not those ugly functional ones we see in Portland so often).
3. Outragiously fashionable peop...more
The book is partly about fashion but it's his composition of color that I notice over and over again. It's a thick little f***er of a book but it's you still want more when it's done.
Some things I learned about fashion from this book are as follows:
1. Fashionable people smoke.
2. Fashionable people ride bikes (cute bikes,not those ugly functional ones we see in Portland so often).
3. Outragiously fashionable peop...more
I once posted on his blog how I dislike some girl wearing Mickey Mouse ears, red ray ban wayfarers, pointy black Madonna bra, tinny knickers which were obviously shorts and louboutin's. And it was her having a Sunday walk somewhere in the world, don't remember where. People slammed me on the site after my remark that she looks gross and eventually it was deleted. Haha. I never posted anything again. I loovee his site and I just can’t get enough how much time and details people spend on dressing ...more
I bought this to-day, there isn't much to read but there are pages and pages of photographs mostly of ordinary everyday folk who have a fantastic sense of style be it conservative, hipster, or eccentric. and although I haven't had time to look through all the plates I'm giving it 5 stars because it represents fantastic value and is beautiful to look at, Schumans photographic skills are well displayed with his choice of subjects, wonderful fashionista who all have 'that certain something' that pu...more
For years, Scott Schuman has manned the helm of one of the Web's greatest street style blogs. Now, he presents some of his favorite shots in this chunky little book. (The book's shape is a direct homage to Scott McCurry's 'Portraits,' another wonderful photography book.) There are so many things I love about Schuman -- his joyous embrace of fashion, his perfect eye, his ability to consistently find real women and men who mix it up so personally and so brilliantly. Bravo!
Street fashion on people young and old in cities across the world. There is much to see here, I am sure I could keep flipping through this and finding things I had not previously noticed. The pictures are wonderful, though often I wished for just a little more context. There is a list at the end of where and when each photo was taken, and occasionally the author includes a name or a little anecdote, but I found myself wanting something like the descriptions in the New York Look Book - who are ...more
Scott Schuman, the blogger of now famous fashion blog thesartorialist.com, has come up with a satisfying print version - a 512-page picture book which collects his favourite photos from the past four years.
Schuman, who also shoots for GQ and Vogue, clearly demonstrates how good a photographer he is by bringing out the characters of the strangers-turned-subjects he meets and finds interesting right from the streets. He celebrates real world wearable style versus runway fashion style fro...more
Schuman, who also shoots for GQ and Vogue, clearly demonstrates how good a photographer he is by bringing out the characters of the strangers-turned-subjects he meets and finds interesting right from the streets. He celebrates real world wearable style versus runway fashion style fro...more
I used to avidly follow The Sartorialist online but I have come to realize that he is very attracted to the same looks and doesn't vary much from them. He likes an elegant, model coifed appearance. I, personally, prefer the grubby vintage messy style of "real" women, especially those of us in the Midwest (he doesn't get far from the city). Nonetheless, his book is a chronicle of timeless appeal.
Mostly a picture-book, but with some captions. Street shots of people who for one reason or another caught the eye of this fashion photographer. For my taste, too many photos of skimpy-dressed women and waaay too many of gay men, neither of whose sartorial choices interest or attract me in the slightest. But still, enough subjects & commentary of interest to keep me turning over every page until the end.
This is mostly a picture book, but that isn't to say I didn't take as much away from "reading" it as I would anything with more words. I loved the Satorialist blog because he sees an angle of humanity that I don't usually associate with fashion. The people he seeks out are sometimes "in the fashion world" and sometimes not. They don't take themselves too seriously and yet they celebrate their style seriously. Maybe this is getting a bit too deep for a book of fashion shots, b...more
The ultimate book for those who like to people watch.
Imagine it. Really.
People watching in Paris, Stockholm, and Milan. Living in Oregon (READ gray, grayer, grayest) this compilation of photos from Scott Schuman's blog is THE perfect respite from seeing REI wearing folk.
Scott Schuman, I heart you.
And, readers, be sure not to miss: thesartorialistblogspot.com
Imagine it. Really.
People watching in Paris, Stockholm, and Milan. Living in Oregon (READ gray, grayer, grayest) this compilation of photos from Scott Schuman's blog is THE perfect respite from seeing REI wearing folk.
Scott Schuman, I heart you.
And, readers, be sure not to miss: thesartorialistblogspot.com
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I picked up this book while at Books-A-Million and I couldn't put it down. I love the photos and brief bios on some Scott's subjects. It made me think of my own fashion sense and how I let motherhood, marriage and age let it slip. I went shopping for a few new items which is something I don't do.
Relatively small format paperbac on heavy coated paper, very high quality images, well printed and finished. Not much text--almost completely "street style" fashions from New York City, Milan, Florence, Paris plus a few outliers--Stockholm, London.
It works beautifully as a book and as a blog, which is how the author got his start. Very few of the subjects are models, many of them are not dressed in any obvious or even definable label or trend but all--well, almost all--loo...more
It works beautifully as a book and as a blog, which is how the author got his start. Very few of the subjects are models, many of them are not dressed in any obvious or even definable label or trend but all--well, almost all--loo...more
Picture book. Neat view of fashion from a fashion-photographer's eye. I liked it because of the balance between mens' and womens' photos. Also, the photographer had a few shots of older women that busted some stereotypes. Some people are very artistic. Not a how-to book on how to dress.
I enjoyed looking at the different personal fashions and drew some inspiration from a handful. I was tempted to rip out the pictures, but didn't. I enjoyed this book more because I was drunk when I looked through it.
This is a book of photographs of beautifully and uniquely dressed men and women on the streets of NY, Paris, Milan, etc. I'm obsessed with this book. I swear, every time I look at it, I see something I haven't seen before. Stunning.
Scott Schuman has been taking fashion photos for his blog and in turn these photos have been featured in fashion mags around the whole. I love his approach when taking photos of passerbyers or fashionistas and presenting the subject in a positive light. On his blog people are able to comment on what a look might convey or how with clothing a story in told right in front of your very eyes. Do enjoy this tremendous book soon. It's a wealth of knowledge and fashion at your finger tips.
It is fun to thumb through the book and see all of Schuman's photographs. In many cases, I wanted to know where the photos were taken and hoped for a little more back story on the photos.
it may be that clayton cubitt has influenced my thinking, but somehow looking at all these photos in a book, they seem more shallow than when looking at them via my rss feed reader.
I love his casually posed shots from around New York and Europe. Sometimes here (and on his blog) he is a little too enamoured of nattily dressed Italians, but that's forgivable.
I like this book. Photographs of people on the street whom the photographer liked their style. I want to look at it further and will probably buy a copy. For awhile now I've been interested in how fashion is art (instead of just clothes, or for showing off possessions) - but a way to express oneself and have fun creating something.
Beautiful. Visually inspiring. If you love or work in art, music, events, literature or love for that matter, this will inspire you every damn day.
Includes photographs of well-known fashion figures as well as those shots of the anonymous passerby whose imagination and taste delight the viewer.
For any fan of fashion, photography or social documentary, this book is a must-have. Rich, vibrant and loving images of a variety of cultures and ages.
picked this up while i was stuck inside a bookstore during a downpour. much to my surprise, i really enjoyed it. unpretentious and inspiring.
Great subjects with great style, great portraiture and minimal but insightful commentary = great book. Benchmark for the modern style photo book in the social media era.
marked as read, but really it was technically "looked" at. I love Scott's photography, it makes me want to be a fashion photographer
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