Goedde Details: Aria Giovanni’s cleavage, Santa Monica 2004 - I never crop my photographs because I believe in composing at the time of exposure. However, sometimes there are little elements I like in photographs that don’t work as a whole. This is what the Goedde Details series is for me. Discarded elements brought to life in a new context. Follow me on Instagram at ‘stevedietgoedde’
Shantelle, Los Angeles 2004 - Photographed during a behind-the-scenes segment for my 2005 DVD Living Through Steve Diet Goedde. Photographed with the Mamiya 645.
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
Marilyn, Chicago 1999 - From my second book The Beauty of Fetish: Volume II (Edition Stemmle). Photographed with the Canon A1. www.stevedietgoedde.com
Bernie Dexter, San Diego 2003 - I’ve known Bernie longer than she probably wants to admit. We shot this when she used to live in San Diego. I wanted this to look like one of those old brassiere ads from the 1950s. Photographed with the Mamiya 645. www.stevedietgoedde.com
Alejandra Guerrero, El Mirage CA 2008 - Photographed in the Mojave Desert on Tmax 400 film with a Holga camera. Alejandra’s Tumblr feed: http://corporatevampire.tumblr.com | www.stevedietgoedde.com
Scary Lady Sarah, Chicago 1993 - I usually don’t do conceptual shoots but I periodically did this series where both the model and I were blindfolded. We would respond to each other mostly by voice, and I would point the camera in the model’s general direction. Using a manual focus camera, I also had to estimate how far or close she was to the camera. This was just one of the photos that ‘worked’. It was later published in my first book “The Beauty of Fetish” (Edition Stemmle, 1998). Photographed with the Canon A1.
Apnea, Los Angeles 2004 - From our first shoot together. Mamiya 645 with Tmax 400 film. www.stevedietgoedde.com
Eden, Berlin 2007 (front) - It was raining when we shot so we took cover under an office building that had these huge slabs of green glass where I played around with her and her reflection. Photographed with a Nikon D200. Accompanying back version HERE. www.stevedietgoedde.com
Eden, Berlin 2007 (back) - It was raining when we shot so we took cover under an office building that had these huge slabs of green glass where I played around with her and her reflection. Photographed with a Nikon D200. Accompanying front version HERE. www.stevedietgoedde.com
Paris Kennedy, Los Angeles 2005 - Photographed with the Mamiya 645 with Tmax 400 film. As usual, all natural light. www.stevedietgoedde.com
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
