{"product_id":"untitled-aug11_20-29","title":"Tableaux: Scenes from the Decade of Excess","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSIGNED by Steve Diet Goedde - A collaborative book from author Dominic Jay and photographer Steve Diet Goedde who contributed 20 of his early black and white images to illustrate the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan’s re-elec­tion and the Brighton bomb; rev­o­lu­tion is in the air. Oliv­er Woolf is a thir­ty-some­thing writer, whose com­fort­able rou­tine is upset by a chance encounter in the rain. The girl in the rain is Can­dy, who is not what she first seems. Over the sum­mer, Oliv­er and Can­dy form an unlike­ly friend­ship, and when she stops call­ing on him, he sets out to find her. His search draws him into a labyrinthine alt-under­world, where he meets some­one who will change his life for­ev­er. A late-twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry Rake’s Progress, Oliver’s jour­ney tra­vers­es the 1980s club scene and con­fronts issues that are still large­ly taboo. With pho­tographs by Steve Diet Goed­de, Tableaux com­bines art and sto­ry­telling in a new hybrid form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Read­ing Tableaux was like revis­it­ing old haunts, or places I would have liked to have haunt­ed. It sparked vis­cer­al sense mem­o­ries and made me nos­tal­gic. \u003cbr\u003eAnd the end­ing …\" – Midori, philoso­pher and social catalyst\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDominic Jay is a for­mer arts jour­nal­ist. His pro­fes­sion­al life gave him priv­i­leged access to peo­ple and places that are usu­al­ly off lim­its, and some of the scenes in this, his first, nov­el are drawn from life. As he says, ​‘all writ­ers are voyeurs’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteve Diet Goedde’s first instinct was to become a film­mak­er. Only slow­ly did his atten­tion turn to pho­tog­ra­phy. His previously published books have brought him crit­i­cal acclaim and a loy­al fol­low­ing, which he has enjoyed ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e_____________________________________________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor INTERNATIONAL orders, please email Steve at stevedg@gmail.com. Int'l rates vary from country to country and can be quite expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you would like a PERSONALIZED signature, please send an email to stevedg@gmail.com when you order your copy and let him know. Thanks!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover \u003cbr\u003e21.5 × 13.5cm \u003cbr\u003e8.5 × 5.25 in \u003cbr\u003e216 pages\u003cbr\u003e20 b\u0026amp;w photographs\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steve Diet Goedde","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46148325179706,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/1597\/9834\/files\/A770D917-BF61-46AF-ADF4-BB5BDCC6D185.jpg?v=1691811431","url":"https:\/\/stevedietgoedde.myshopify.com\/products\/untitled-aug11_20-29","provider":"Steve Diet Goedde","version":"1.0","type":"link"}