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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 Scott?s 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 Scott?s favorite images, accompanied by his insightful commentar...more
Paperback, 512 pages
Published
August 12th 2009
by Penguin Books
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K, so Scott Schuman is a blogger/ photographer who goes out on the streets (in big cool cities) and takes photos of 'the real people' to show as he put it: 'a two-way dialogue about the world of fashion and its relationship to daily life'
So, I like fashion and I wish I had enough money to dress myself the way I would like to and I love portrait photography so I was thinking I'd real like this book. Well, yeah, not so much.
Main gripe is that although Schuman says in the book that he tries to find...more
So, I like fashion and I wish I had enough money to dress myself the way I would like to and I love portrait photography so I was thinking I'd real like this book. Well, yeah, not so much.
Main gripe is that although Schuman says in the book that he tries to find...more
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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 tailored su...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 tailored su...more
4.5 stars. To me, this book is more about portrait photography and less about fashion. This is not to say that some of these people are not fashionable by any standard, old or new.
However, I think the photographer is looking for unusual (sometimes shocking) fashion choices, which I am not convinced are always deliberate. And there are of course shots which I would by no means consider chic: courageous yes... stylish no... (and I'm talking about the guys wearing "underwear" as pants and so on)....more
However, I think the photographer is looking for unusual (sometimes shocking) fashion choices, which I am not convinced are always deliberate. And there are of course shots which I would by no means consider chic: courageous yes... stylish no... (and I'm talking about the guys wearing "underwear" as pants and so on)....more
Nov 25, 2009
Kate
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I sure don't have any fashion sense, but I like looking at people who do.
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There's a reason why thesartorialist.com is my homepage.
It's because Scott takes beautiful pictures.
Up until recently, I was perfectly fine with looking at all the photographs that he took of people on the website, but when I chanced upon this book in a bookstore in Amsterdam, I knew I had to buy it. (Sadly, I didn't get it there because my parents said 27 euros was not worth paying for a book.)
What I love most about this book is the commentary that comes with some of the pictures. Schuman wr...more
It's because Scott takes beautiful pictures.
Up until recently, I was perfectly fine with looking at all the photographs that he took of people on the website, but when I chanced upon this book in a bookstore in Amsterdam, I knew I had to buy it. (Sadly, I didn't get it there because my parents said 27 euros was not worth paying for a book.)
What I love most about this book is the commentary that comes with some of the pictures. Schuman wr...more
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 rea...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 people smoke and ride bikes at the same time.
4. Fashionable prim...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 people smoke and ride bikes at the same time.
4. Fashionable prim...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
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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 th...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 from all over...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 from all over...more
Masterful. Scott Schuman lets me stare at people and their clothes and 500 pages later I'm ready for more. (YAY it exists.) Haha half the people here are smoking the other half are on the phone. The ocassional backstory text always refreshed me with depth and context; I think I could use just a smidge more of that, too. Oddly (because I have only the visual cues? because they look like models??) I don't feel drawn to any one here -- don't wish I could meet them. That's a bit sad.
If your idea of fun includes spending an afternoon on a bench watching people walk by, say downtown crossing, than this book should be on your reading list. Schuman is certainly a talented photographer, but, more importantly, he clearly appreciates people and respects that there are a great many individuals in this world..big, small, tall, short, "fat and bald". The wonderful thing about REAL FASHION is that it is worn by REAL PEOPLE.
I enjoy his blog, I really enjoyed this book and I loved his b...more
I enjoy his blog, I really enjoyed this book and I loved his b...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.
It's like a grillion pages and postcard sized and so tightly bound that it takes great wrist strength to keep it open. Which I don't have, so I can only look at this for 5-8 minutes at a time. Which defeats the whole purpose of fashion photos, which are meant to be flipped through for hours. The photos are good tho. The text is so pretentious it's funny and therefore not pretentious again.
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, but I often wonder wh...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
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--look relaxed and casually...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--look relaxed and casually...more
Love these type of books so much, I want to do one. hmmm. maybe I will. I saw a lot of great things in the pages of this book. Really, just people being people. No forced type of fashion (well a few forced) but the book is good.
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.
This book is about personal/street style more than fashion. Clothes are way of expression. The only thing is that there is no universal or shared language that allow us to interpret it, yet they are very appealing to everyone!
Scott Schuman know how to capture those style very beautifully.
Scott Schuman know how to capture those style very beautifully.
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'm a big fan of the photographer, fashion blogger The Sartorialist. The book was all about his photographs of fashionable women and men. It's a great addition to the collection.
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Scott Schuman is the creator of the popular fashion blog "The Sartorialist". After leaving his position as director of men's fashion at his showroom to take care of his daughter in September 2005, he began carrying a digital camera around and photographing people he saw on the street whose style he found striking. He then posted these to his blog, sometimes with short comments, always either favor...more
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