The Beauty of Fetish: Volume 2 [Hardcover]

Steve Diet Goedde (Photographer), I. S. Levine (Preface)

Editorial Reviews

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"Fetish glamour at its most glamourous." -- Skin Two Magazine #37

"Persuasive and hot" -- Playboy Magazine, December 2001

Product Details

• Hardcover: 136 pages
• Publisher: Edition Stemmle (August 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3908163420
• ISBN-13: 978-3908163428
• Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 10 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,225,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fine Art Photography and Contemplative Fetish Images, September 26, 2001

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Midori (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Beauty of Fetish: Volume 2 (Hardcover)

Mr. Goedde's second book is even more beautiful, artistic and fetishistically erotic than the first one... and that's saying something since I think the first one is dynamite! Volume 2 is a photographic chronicle, or collections of impressions, of the first few years of his move to the West.

The color images are bolder and often stunningly forthright in its strength for a photographer known for documenting moments of quiet sensuality. But don't worry, his black and white images are even more of what makes Mr. Goedde's works so special. They seem to give the views a peek into private moments of contemplation and solitary fetish Eros. Many images come with his signature quirkiness that's so delightful as well.

If you love images of charming and beautiful women in latex, high heels, leather and boots... and if you appreciate excellent fine art photography, this book is for you!

As it was true with his first collection this beautifully bound oversized book is suitable for any coffee table....

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Skin Two Magazine Review, July 4, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Beauty of Fetish: Volume 2 (Hardcover)

For a photographer who has built his reputation on creating distinctive black and white fetish imagery, a move into colour is not to be taken lightly. The arcane craft of the darkroom does not easily release its grip on the practitioner. And when the subject is fetishism, whose portrayal in the traditional medium is still so widely enjoyed, a shift into colour might seem to be even more of a shot in the dark.

But in the new work of Steve Diet Goedde, created since he left (as he puts it) the monochromatic landscape of his native Chicago for the saturated colour of California, it is clear that the gamble has paid off. His ability to capture mood, personality, attitude and (importantly) humour in the fetish moment has not diminished. His knack for conjuring eroticism from a quirky pose, an unusual angle or a bold crop is as sharp as ever. In Goedde's work, colour has not obscured meaning - it has simply enhanced detail.

His second book for Stemmle, The Beauty of Fetish Vol. 2, majors on Goedde's new full colour oeuvre. This big coffee table book includes no less than 140 colour and duotone plates, the latter demonstrating not only that Steve hasn't abandoned black and white but also just how well his old and new styles coexist....

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly erotic and stylish!, October 9, 2001

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Donna McDougal (Upstate New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Beauty of Fetish: Volume 2 (Hardcover)

I was actually shocked at how this book is so much better than the first volume. This new collection of photographs proves that Mr. Goedde is the only true successor of Helmut Newton. What's especially refreshing is his new attention to color work. Even though the color work is stylistically different than his black and white work, it has an even higher intensity. This is fetish glamour at it's highest.