From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also hear the show at KCRW.com.

Probably some of the best photos we ever tend to see usually come from fronts or places

where there's a lot of action. If you look at the photos on the blog, the Sartorialist, they feel

they come from the front to the Style Wars. My guest is Scott Schumann. He also has a new book,

The Sartorialist, published by Penguin, that uses a lot of the photos from the blog. First of all, Scott, thanks so much for being here. Thank you very much.

Thanks for having me.

And it really is what we were saying before we got started, but it feels to me like

pictures from the front.

And I wondered that that was, you were saying before, that that really was kind of an

inspiration for you as a photographer.

Yeah, well, you know, you had mentioned National Geographic. And one of the photographers that I looked at a lot when I was starting to teach myself photography was Steve McCurry, who shoots for National Geographic,

and he's going to bat or all over the world.

He's a famous photo of the 14-year-old girl in the cover time magazine from 1980.

Exactly. Beautiful portraits, really set within the space that he's in. You get a sense of where

he's at. You get a sense of who these people are.

Then they're beautiful.

They're stylish in their own way.

And he travels to all these beautiful places.

And you want to know who these people are.

And so that was a very early inspiration when I started to teach myself photography.

And so I think I was able to look at something like that and say, you know, what's my version of that?

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