Jessica, Rural Illinois 1995 - Taken in a swimming pool at a farm in rural Illinois. The boobs are real, and they were photographed with the Mamiya 645. www.stevedietgoedde.com
Steve Diet Goedde
This is a tumblelog, kinda like a blog but with short-form, mixed-media posts with stuff I like. Scroll down a bit to start reading, or a bit more to read more about me.
Jessica, Los Angeles 2009 - Shot with the Yashica T4. www.stevedietgoedde.com
Jessica, Chicago 1994 - Jessica was a very close friend of mine when I lived in Chicago. She wasn’t into the fetish lifestyle but always enjoyed dressing up for me for the sake of taking photos. This particular image has a somewhat George Hurrell feel to it which I love very much.
I’ve posted this photo before (and it’s in my first book), and it’s always been one of my best-received images. However, it’s interesting to note that I’ve gotten a lot of recent criticism for the shot because I didn’t Photoshop her skin. Sorry, but I believe in the integrity of the moment that I decided to release the shutter and commit the image to film. Knowing that this is a real person with real flaws is FAR sexier to me than an imagined and artificial manipulation of how a model is “supposed” to look. Realness gets me off, not some saccharine fantasy.
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About
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
