The Sartorialist’s Scott Schuman on JCTV on “Bloggers”

Scott makes some great points and I think he’s right when he says that there are blogs out there being manipulated. When such incentives are offered to a young, aspiring (or not) writer, he/she is faced with a difficult decision. Keeping the integrity of your site is no easy task but that’s why there needs to be transparency and disclosure from the site.

Readers will respect, much more than your the number of twitter followers you have, or facebook “likes”, or your traffic rankings.

A good interview overall, but I wished the interviewer had asked, ‘How does a blog maintain its identity and credibility once the blogger has become successful enough to outgrow his initial limitations?’

Scott’s blog feels completely different than it did three years ago: it’s no longer a street-shot blog. Instead of posting five or so pictures of anonymous NYCers every day, he posts one or two pictures of (increasingly) famous fashionistas – whether models, art world people, whatever. Lately, true man-on-the-street shots are hard to come by on his site. I don’t harbor any adolescent delusions of him having sold out or even cashed in: as his work became popular, he was offered new opportunities, and he took advantage of them. But the thing is, who is he now? His site was never about the way he took pictures; it was about the sort of people he photographed. Now that he largely photographs a different sort of subject (a much more widely photographed subject), what differentiates him from other photo-bloggers?

@123ABC : Very good points in your comment. Thank you.

I think it should be noted it’s highly unlikely he’s talking about blogs in the menswear spectrum, but rather blogs that look at sites like fashiontoast and stylebubble and try to emulate it.

Also, I think 123ABC brought up great points. As much as Shuman says he’s all about regular folks, there’s no denying that the amount of famous/noted people on the blog has increased tenfold. He even put Vince from Entourage up there and he dresses like shit.

i feel that his blog was about individual style, now its about who he knows and who he can shoot to in turn sell his images now – when he used to shoot that guy Doug who buys the vintage at RL my heart would light up at the sight of him with his smoke stained beard and carharrt gloves and beaten up cardigans trudging down 5th ave like a dejected extra from a christmas movie – yet he had grace and style thus was a perfect subject !! the internet is there to be taken advantage of as a porthole to disseminate information fact or fiction its free reign folks – visual inconsistency should be viewed as eclectic as opposed to being poo pooed as inconsistent – i feel he was great yet as of now he has been sucked into a world that he isnt able to traverse so credibly.

loosen up guys. the man’s got a point regardless of what’s happening to his blog. any new up and coming blogger should be more creative and should offer more than the previous ones. otherwise we’re all just gonna see recycled trash everyday.