STEVE DIET GOEDDE
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004
- The Porcelain Twinz by Steve Diet Goedde, Aalto Lounge, Portland, OR.
- Murder Ballads, Hinetoa Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Still photography from independent short film "Murder Ballads" directed by Sasha Turjak.
2002
- New Work 2002, Madame S Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2000
- Photographs from the American West, Feitico Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1997
- A Chicagoan in San Francisco, Stormy Leather Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
- Final Chicago Show, Hook Torture Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1995
- New Work, Essex Gallery, Chicago, IL.
- Sextacy Ball Tour (photography went on tour with this “traveling arts party”, which also featured live performances by Lords of Acid and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult. Organized by AAM Productions, New York).
1994
- Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (one-night-show featuring the photography Goedde did for the making of the critically acclaimed short-film Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade), St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO.
1991
- Femme Fétiche, China Club, Chicago, IL.
- One-night-show, Shelter Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1990
- Rubber and Liquor, China Club, Chicago, IL.
- Come As You Are, Shelter Gallery, Chicago, IL.
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2005
- Blue Valentine, Tower Gallery, Sacramento, CA
- Lo Ve, BlueSpace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- CrazySexyHollywood, Art @ Large, New York, NY
- Barbara Ann Crumm: Model, Muse, Artist, Identity, Sometimes Madness is Wisdom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
- The Erotic Museum, Los Angeles, CA (inaugural opening August 2003).
- CrazySexyHollywood, Perihelion Arts, Phoenix, AZ, Carlos Batts (curator)
- Beauty: Surface and Substance, SAC Arts at the Santora Building, Santa Ana, CA
- CrazySexyHollywood, Mondo Bizarro Gallery, Bologna Italy, Carlos Batts (curator)
- SENT, SixSpace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Candyland, BlueSpace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Heidi Calvert, Steve Diet Goedde (co-curators)
- LA Erotica, Clair Obscur Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Four West Coast Photographers, Invisible Gallery, Columbus, OH. Chas Ray Krider (curator)
- Monsters, BlueSpace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Snapshot, SixSpace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- New Work, SoHo Gallery, Studio City, CA (Mitzi Valenzuela Cardenas (curator)
2003
- Winter Fling Art Show, Mitzi Valenzuela Cardenas (curator), Los Angeles, CA.
- CrazySexyHollywood, SOMA Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Carlos Batts (curator)
- Art in the Vault, Altadena, CA, Michael Hicks & Ed Tellefsen (curators)
- Ken Dunipace Memorial Benefit, Hollywood, CA, Michael Hicks & Ed Tellefsen (curators)
- CrazySexyHollywood, One Eye Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Carlos Batts (curator)
- Holland Art Fair, Netherlands, Sandra van Gils (curator)
- New Work, SoHo Gallery, Studio City, CA (Mitzi Valenzuela Cardenas (curator)
- Skin Two Expo, London, UK
2002
- Spring Fling Art Show, Mitzi Valenzuela Cardenas (curator), Santa Monica, CA.
- Untitled exhibition, Echo Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2001
- Untitled show, Eye Five Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2000
- Unapocalyptic: The Future That Never Was, USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
- Object of Desire, The Lab Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1999
- The Sensual in Photography, BGH Gallery - Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA.
- Around the Coyote 99, Feitico Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1996
- Erotic II, Roberto Lopez Gallery, Chicago, IL.
- Untitled exhibition, Hook Torture Gallery, Chicago, IL.
- Hook Torture at the Roberto Lopez Gallery, Roberto Lopez Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1995
- Untitled exhibition, Hook Torture Gallery, Chicago, IL.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monograph Books
2001
- The Beauty of Fetish: Volume II: Photographs by Steve Diet Goedde (Edition Stemmle, Zurich)
Text by I.S. Levine and Steve Diet Goedde.
1998
- The Beauty of Fetish - Photographs of Steve Diet Goedde (Edition Stemmle, Zurich).
Text by Vicky Goldberg, FetishDiva Midori, and Steve Diet Goedde.
1993
- Phovella: Photographs by Steve Diet Goedde (DietTribe Enterprises, Chicago).
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Published Work
2005
- Wild: Fashion Untamed, The Metropolitan Museum of Art & Yale University Press
- Fetish & Fashion, Lounge Verlag, Germany
- Self-Exposure, Universe
2004
- Photo District News, February 2004, What Camera Phones Can Do For You, (mini-gallery)
- Maxim Magazine, Belgium, (Erotic photography supplement book).
- Secret Fetish Photo Anthology: Volume 4, Jürgen Boedt (ed.), Brussels.
- Jade Magazine's Special Reserve Collection, Mark Marsay & Diane Crowther (ed.), UK.
- Tease Magazine #10, 6-page gallery layout.
2003
- Secret Magazine, Brussels, no. 22 (Cover feature with 10-page gallery and interview).
- Playboy Magazine, US, October 2003 (article featuring the Gallery of Erotic Photography).
- Maxim Magazine, UK, August 2003 (Erotic photography supplement book).
- PhotoVision Magazine, US, Sept/Oct 2003.
2002
- Playboy Magazine, US, Dec 2002 (book review).
- Akt & Foto Magazine, Germany (Cover feature with 8-page gallery).
- WireHed Magazine, US, Dec 2002. Article by Brian McDonough.
- Blonde, Carlton Books, UK.
- Sex: Take a Walk on the Wild Side, Carlton Books, UK.
- Femmes: Masterpieces of Erotic Photography, Carlton Books, UK.
- Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica, Carroll & Graf, New York.
- Salon.com, Article by Charles Taylor.
2001
- Venus: Masterpieces of Modern Erotic Photography, Michelle Olley (ed.), Carlton Books, UK.
- “Lovin’ Latex” in Los Angeles New Times, November 2001. Article by Martin Johnson.
- Love, Lust, Desire: Masterpieces of Modern Erotic Photography, Michelle Olley (ed.), Carlton Books, UK.
2000
- “Shoes: Footnotes in a Well-Heeled History” in: Fetish Magazine, U.S., no. 10 (10-page feature with text by Darklady and FetishDiva Midori).
- 2000 Collection, Fetish Postcard Collection, DietTribe Enterprises, Los Angeles.
- Derrieres, Carlton Books, UK.
- Legs, Carlton Books, UK.
- Breasts, Carlton Books, UK.
- The Face, Carlton Books, UK.
- The Female Form, Tony Mitchell (ed.), Carlton Books, UK.
1999
- Fetish Magazine, US, no. 8 (cover photograph, 12-page gallery with text).
- Erotica Magazine, US, no. 3 (cover photograph, 6-page gallery with text).
- Skin Two Magazine, US, no. 27 (4-page feature with text).
- Marquis Magazine, Solingen, Germany, no.14 (4-page feature with text).
- Fetish: Masterpieces of Erotic Fantasy, Tony Mitchell (ed.), Photography Carlton Books, UK.
- Secret Fetish Photo Anthology: Volume 3, Jürgen Boedt (ed.), Brussels.
1998
- “Leg WorkGemini Klein” in: Leg Show, New York, January (the historic fetish shoe/boot collection of Chicago’s Gemini Klein as modeled by FetishDiva Midori).
- Marquis,Solingen, Germany, no. 11 (cover photograph accompanying 8-page feature) chronicling the latex designs of So Hip It Hurts of San Fransico).
- Masquerade Newsletter, New York (2-page gallery with text).
- Secret Magazine, Brussels, no. 14 (8-page feature with text).
1997
- 1997 Collection, Fetish Postcard Collection, DietTribe Enterprises, Chicago, IL.
- La Fotografia Actual, Barcelona, no. 58 (cover photograph, 6-page feature with text).
- “L8X DIVA” in: Ritual Magazine, London, no. 9 (article about FetishDiva Midori).
- “Leather Girls” in: (not only) Blue, Sydney, no. 7.
- FetishDiva Midori Collection, Fetish Postcard Collection, DietTribe Enterprises and Fire Horse Productions, Chicago/San Francisco.
- Zoom, Milan, no. 18 (6-page feature with text).
- Secret Fetish Photo Anthology II, Brussels (8-page gallery of photographs).
1996
- Fetish Postcard Collections no. 0, 1, 2, DietTribe Enterprises, Chicago, IL.
- Tower Records/Books/Videos, Sacramento (use of original photograph for national ad campaign).
- Secret Magazine, Brussels, no. 10 (5-page gallery with text).
- “Fetish Photographer Steve Diet Goedde” in: Taste of Latex, Seattle, no. 14.
1995
- Ghost Brigade: Director’s Cut, Image Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA.
Laserdisc featuring a supplementary chapter of production photos taken by Steve Diet Goedde.
- (not only) Blue, Sydney, no. 2 (photos accompanying 6-page article).
- Marquis, Solingen, Germany, no. 3 (4-page feature with text).
1994
- “Looking Goedde” in: Skin Two Magazine, London, no. 15.
- “Talented Photographer Steve Diet Goedde” in: «O» magazine, Solingen, Germany, no. 23.
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Motion Picture Still Photography
1992
- Grey Knight (AKA Ghost Brigade or The Killing Box), Motion Picture Corporation of America (besides documenting the production of the film and taking the still-photographs, the job required producing authentic looking Civil War portraits and battle photography. Movie poster and video box).
1993
- Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade, Kino-Eye American (promotional and production stills featuring principle actors Billy Bob Thorton, Molly Ringwald and J. T. Walsh. Movie poster and video box).
1994
- The Low Life, Zuckerman-Heminway Productions (promotional and production stills featuring principle actors Rory Cochrane, Kyra Sedgwick, J. T. Walsh, James LeGross, Renée Zellweger).
2003
- The Mayor of the Sunset Strip, George Hickenlooper Productions (promotional photography surrounding this documentary about legendary rock DJ, Rodney Bingenheimer.
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Musical Photography
1985 Soul Asylum, Time’s Incinerator, Twin/Tone Records, Minneapolis (sleeve photography).
1989 God’s Acre, Ten Gospel Greats, Wax Trax! Records, Chicago (sleeve and poster photography).
1997 Pigface, A New High in Low, Invisible Records, Chicago (promotional photography).
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I've had an interest in photography since I was very young. My father had a small darkroom in our house when I was growing up in St. Louis. He used it primarely to develop and print photographs from our many family vacations. When I was old enough, he taught me the very basics of darkroom work, and that was pretty much my only training as a photographer. I never studied it in school.
In high school, I started taking a serious interest in photography. Besides taking pictures, I also started studying other photographers' styles and techniques. I quickly became obsessed with Richard Avedon and Diane Arbus. Like most new photographers, I started out trying to mimic the styles of my heroes, but I quickly realized that I had my own style and aesthetic to develop. I used my friends as subjects and concentrated on straight portraiture.
In 1985, I moved to Chicago to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Instead of photography, I decided to study film-making. I felt I already had achieved my style and technique with photography, so I wanted to study something I did not have technical know-how of. But I quickly realized that I did not have the patience to deal with film-making. I would lose interest in projects after only a few days. Still photography gave me more immediate results so I decided to forgo my cinematic dreams and concentrate on my still images. I still refused to study photography in an academic setting so I just ended up dropping out of art school after two years.
From 1991-1997, I photographed in Chicago and also made frequent trips to San Francisco. The images from this time period were chronicled in my first hardcover book, "The Beauty of Fetish" (Edition Stemmle).
In 1998, I decided I needed a change of scenery and made the decision to move to a new city and most importantly, a new environment. I left the murky gray city of Chicago and headed out to the color-saturated landscape of Southern California. It was there that I made a whole new group of friends and collegues who ultimately helped me forge my new style of photography. My first three years in California produced most of the work found in my second book, "The Beauty of Fetish: Volume II" (also on Edition Stemmle).
