Scott Schuman - Photographer & Blogger

[salomelovesjohn]

I enjoy the lack of negative comments. I mean these are just people on the street...not necessarily 'fashion' people, imagine how crushing it could be to get mean comments. I just don't see it as necessary. I look and if I don't like the picture, no big deal.

 

[papa_levante]

"Here is the GAP Ad!" August 4, 2008 -
- The Sartorialist

So, remember when I was shot for this back in April?

Well, here is the result.


Even though this blog is very personal it feels like it has grown bigger than me.

I used to occasionally post photos of myself, but now I feel much more self-conscious about doing that. However, this is a story that I shared a while ago and this feels like a fitting end on that episode.

 

[papa_levante]

The book has arrived!

Well what can I say - the book is starting to roll off the presses.

Penguin just sent me one of the first printed copies.

It is so crazy to actually be holding the book I have been working on since January.

I know I took all of the pictures, I remember taking each one, but I still can't believe I took all of the photographs.

Tracy is holding the paperback version, and soon I will have a copy of the limited-edition hardcover with slipcase to show you.

This has been a labor of love. Taking the pictures, editing the pictures, arranging the pictures, doing most of the writing while I was still in Phoenix after my Dad died. It's hard to put into words how one feels looking at their own work presented like this - so I won't even try.

I hope you enjoy the book and I will keep you posted about the book signing tour, the SartoriaLUST pop-up shops, and any other events surrounding the launch of the book.

Below are links to some sites where you can pre-order the book. It comes out August 12th in the US, and worldwide by early September.

July 20 / The Sartorialist

 

[Bird of Paradise]

Does anyone know what happened with his section on style.com during the fashion weeks? Maybe I´m wrong but I can´t find it

 

[donner]

The Sartorialist--the book

I love the book. It is small format, beautifully finished and very well laid out. Not much text--not even identifying the locations in most cases although it is sometimes possibly to tell from the context.

Both the book and the blog have their strengths. One of the main reasons I love the book so much is that it is not interactive, not digital--that somehow makes it easier, at least for me, to linger over some of the the pictures and enjoy the details, although the compact size works against it here. The images are super sharp--he is clearly a very technically gifted phototgrapher as well as having such a great eye for street fashion-- and the printing is high quality. The registration is off a bit (no more than a dot or two and you have to check with a glass to really see it) but that is the kind of thing that can come and go in a long run. Having been in the printing business for many years some of this stuff jumps off the page at me.

One fun thing to do on the blog is to save images that one particularly likes and look at some of the details magnified in an image viewer--and that gets rid of the clumsiness that comes from looking at the printed page thru a linen tester or a loupe.

I don't want to seem negative at all in these comments--I will most likely buy a several books as gifts for the holidays and I recommend the blog to lots of people.

 

[kasper!]

L'Officel Homme 18
The Sartorialist by Milan Vukmirovic





source:scanned by sobigsobig

 

[missfortune]

Anybody could translate it? thanks

 

[Drusilla_]

I got the book a couple of months ago- I was expecting it to be larger, but it's a nice size- perfect to cart around in my bag whenever I'm travelling or on the move. And all the images may have been published on the blog before, but saving them in digital format just does not compare to actually having them on a page (one reason why I wished I lived in NY so I could see his exhibition too).
IMO his strength as a photographer lies in his eye for detail and composition. Sometimes I look at Garance's blog and it strikes me that her images are more beautiful than his, but I think they approach photography from two different perspectives and I like seeing both.

 

[BerlinRocks]

* wait a minute ... why this thread does exist when one thread i opened about tavi got closed, since i was told "at this stage we are not having blogger threads in Star Style because technically they are not 'celebrities' as such." *
should i open a Tavi thread in BTL ?

 

[Drusilla_]

^ I don't know what the mods will say, but Scott Schuman is a professional photographer apart from being a blogger, and I guess the fact that he's had a book out makes him part of the fashion "establishment", so to speak, more than if he were just sitting behind a computer doing posts (he's worked for British Elle, style.com, GQ and other fashion publications too, even if it's his blog that placed him in the public eye and in that position in the first place).

 

[BerlinRocks]

^ok dear !

once again i should have just pass my way and shut up ...

 

[Drusilla_]

^ no issues, I know the line between bloggers and fashion insiders can get rather blurry- though most bloggers wouldn't have representation by Jed Root! (in company with Sebastian Kim and Matthias Vriens-McGrath among others).

 

[Les_Sucettes]

Do you really need a thread for this guy?

 

[Drusilla_]

Can't see why not, like I said he's actually a pro photographer who got famous as a result of his blog. Besides, he's done enough assignments for fashion publications- covered 6 seasons for style.com, and shot editorials for Elle and Vogue among others, that more or less proves he's a fashion photographer, right?

 

[Les_Sucettes]

Well but he's basically a blogger, are people going to post ALL the pics he posts on his blog in here, because that constitutes his work or because he's a blogger we are going to have special rules for him? Is this thread going to be publicity to his blog? It does not make sense.

Plus I cannot understand what merit does he have to deserve a thread, but that is just a personal opinion.

 

[Drusilla_]

^you're right, his blog pics are part of his photographic output. IMO the fact that he's prolific with them and posts them for free viewing online doesn't mean he's not a photographer. He just happens to specialise in one niche- portraits of people whom he considers well dressed. And if our posts here act as publicity for his blog, I think the same might be said for the work of any (full-time mainstream) photographer or stylist whose work we post about in this forum? I'm not sure.
As far as merit is concerned, I guess the thread starter felt he had it. The way I understand it, the main criterion that the mods check for before allowing a thread here is that the subject of the thread must work in fashion, in some job besides being a model. He does, so I suppose that's why we're here and having this discussion (which I'm enjoying, by the way- I hope I haven't offended you!).

 

[Les_Sucettes]

^you're right, his blog pics are part of his photographic output. IMO the fact that he's prolific with them and posts them for free viewing online doesn't mean he's not a photographer. He just happens to specialise in one niche- portraits of people whom he considers well dressed. And if our posts here act as publicity for his blog, I think the same might be said for the work of any (full-time mainstream) photographer or stylist whose work we post about in this forum? I'm not sure.
As far as merit is concerned, I guess the thread starter felt he had it. The way I understand it, the main criterion that the mods check for before allowing a thread here is that the subject of the thread must work in fashion, in some job besides being a model. He does, so I suppose that's why we're here and having this discussion (which I'm enjoying, by the way- I hope I haven't offended you!).

Not at all. Well but his main medium is really his blog. His work is really in his blog. Are people going to transfer all the pics of his blog because it's his work to here? Or is he going to need special rules? It does not make sense. In all other threads there is a need for organization, in my view that's why they exist. The work of all this other photographer's is spread, there are mags to be scanned, books, images lost in unrelated places.On the other hand Sart's blog is in a way, his own thread already.

Yes he does a little work here and there outside the blog, but not everyone that works in fashion has a thread or needs one. Why not one for Garance? Or Jak and Jill? The possibilities are endless.

 

[MulletProof]

LS, people are not going to 'start' transferring his entire blog in here, there is a link in the first post of this thread so you can see his blog, comment pictures in there and come back and share your views on his work, this thread has been around for over 4 years and as you can see, it's managed to be only about his published work and articles about it, nothing catastrophic..
And it is not an exception, this thread exists for the same reason Cory Kennedy's thread exists, he's done work outside his blog, has been published, shot campaigns, is represented by a well-known agency, and basically everything else Drusilla has been saying..

 

[Drusilla_]

^Les Sucettes, as you said, his main medium is his blog, but this thread has been around for a while and I don't see a flood of reposted Sartorialist images. I can't imagine what kind of rules we'd have to regulate that though- anything I can think of seems rather arbitrary. Maybe a TFS thread would offer the additional possibility of his magazine/campaign/other commercial work (which he doesn't share on the blog) being put up and discussed? (just for the record, I detest that DKNY campaign he shot with Hilary Duff. So bland and horrible, IMO it went against everything his blog is about).

As for other bloggers who do mainstream fashion work, I suppose the well-known ones could qualify for threads here if we consider them professionals who self-publish (Garance was/is an illustrator, for instance, and before becoming a photographer I believe Scott owned a shop of sorts). I don't want to end up going off topic, so I'll leave it there.

EDIT: I see a mod already replied- thanks for clearing it up, MulletProof!