Dita, Los Angeles 2001 - I’ve been seeing a lot of horrible, low-res, scanned-from-her-book versions of this photo online. It pains me to see them so here’s a version straight from the original negative. Let’s please reblog from the original sources! Latex by So Hip It Hurts. www.stevedietgoedde.com
Happy Birthday, Dita!
Dita, Los Angeles 2001 - I’ve been seeing a lot of horrible, low-res, scanned-from-her-book versions of this photo online. It pains me to see them so here’s a version straight from the original negative. Let’s please reblog from the original sources! Latex by So Hip It Hurts. www.stevedietgoedde.com
Dita Von Teese, Costa Mesa CA 2000
Dita Von Teese photographed in her home in Costa Mesa, CA in December 2000. Dita and I had met a few years previously when I first moved to Los Angeles from Chicago. We had always intended to shoot but neither of us made the first move. A few years later, a mutual make-up artist friend of ours, Josef, finally brought us together. I shot this with my Mamiya 645 with one simple tungsten light pointed directly at her. It remains one of my favorite images of her, and it was published in my second book “The Beauty of Fetish: Volume II” (Edition Stemmle) in 2001.
Steve Diet Goedde has been a fine art fetish photographer since 1990. He is known for his subtle approach to photographing the high-gloss fetish world in a very non-gloss, down-to-earth style. His attention to composition and black and white tonal quality has given him the title of the Ansel Adams of fetish. Steve established his photographic style in the early 1990s in Chicago where he photographed the contents of his first book "The Beauty of Fetish" (Edition Stemmle) which was released in 1998. That same year, Steve relocated to Los Angeles where he continued to define his evolving style. This west coast work was later compiled in his second Edition Stemmle book "The Beauty of Fetish: Volume II" in 2001. In 2006, Slish Pix released a DVD compilation of his work entitled "Living Through Steve Diet Goedde". In 2009, Steve has collaborated with French composer Robert Waechter on a CD entitled "GoeddeConcerto" (ReadyMade Music) in which the ConcertMaster of the Philharmonic of Nice, France interprets 21 of Steve's photographs into 21 mini-concertos. www.stevedietgoedde.com
