In the Street, Following Fashion
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Your reporter must confess to a guilty pleasure: he checks in with regularity at The Sartorialist to revel in the comely figures and exquisite tailoring. The Sartorialist is photographer Scott Schuman, and his exhibition opens this evening with a book signing at Danziger Gallery.
“Since September 2005, Schuman has recorded not so much ‘street fashion’ but the moment when men and women with a certain style find themselves in particular time and place and light and capture his attention,” says the gallery. “The response has been a phenomenon. The site now regularly gets 1.8 million unique visits a month and 12 million page views. To celebrate the September publication of Schuman’s second Penguin book, The Sartorialist – Closer, Danziger Gallery will be mounting a two week exhibition concurrent with New York’s Fashion Week.
“As a body of work, his photographs describe how fashion manifests itself in real life as opposed to the runway – inclusive of all ethnicities, economic classes, age, and sex. As Schuman’s travels take him further around the world his blog has become a showcase for the varied sartorial tastes of real people across the globe.”
“The Sartorialist: Closer” opens this evening, with a book signing 6-8 PM, and runs through September 15 at Danziger Gallery, 527 West 23rd Street, between 10th and 11th avenues, 212-629-6778, danzigerprojects.com.
Franklin Einspruch is the art critic for The New York Sun. He blogs at Artblog.net.
