Jodi Wille

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Jodi Wille is a book editor, filmmaker, and photographer known for collaborating with self-taught artists and individuals who have amassed personal archives that document American subcultures. She is the co-publisher of Process Media and Dilettante Press.

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[edit] Book Publishing and Editing

In 1995, Wille co-founded Dilettante Press, a publishing house with a focus on outsider, visionary, and vernacular art and photography, with partners Nick Rubenstein, Steven Napela, and, later, Hedi El Kholti.[1] Dilettante’s first book, The End Is Near! Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia, was published in collaboration with The American Visionary Art Museum.

Wille conceptualized and edited Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan by Gary Lee Boas, which features instamatic photographs of famous people taken from 1966-1980 by an obsessive fan. Starstruck is featured in Martin Parr’s History of Photography II as one of the 200 most important photography books of the last 30 years. The publication of Starstruck launched the photo career of fan/photographer Boas, who has since shown in 14 major galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe, including Deitch Projects in New York.

In 2005, Wille and husband Adam Parfrey of Feral House founded Process Media, with an emphasis on non-fiction books that explore American subcultures and document groundbreaking musicians such as Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, John Sinclair and MC5, Ya Ho Wa 13 and Father Yod, and Moondog. Process has also created a "Self-Reliance Series" of illustrated guide books that promote sustainable and self-sufficient living.

[edit] Works

[edit] Awards

  • Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews, Winner: Best Book on Sexuality/Relationships, 2006 Independent Publisher Awards
  • Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan, Selected by Artforum as "Best of 2000"
  • Go Ask Ogre: Letters from a Deathrock Cutter, Finalist: Best Juvenile/Teen Young Adult Non-fiction, 2006 Independent Publisher Awards
  • The End is Near: Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia, Winner: Benjamin Franklin Award for Best First Book, 1998

[edit] Filmmaking and Photography

Wille has also worked as a documentarian, still photographer, music video director, and television field producer,[3] collaborating with artists Vincent Gallo, Melissa Etheridge, The Dwarves, Sparks and R.E.M., among others.

Wille spent five years documenting an Apocalyptic Los Angeles sect known as The Universal World Church. She directed a Christmas special for the church called "God Bless America" and wrote an article about them forFlaunt magazine in 1999.

Wille is the director of "The Source Family" documentary, a feature length documentary currently in production based on the story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and the Source Family.

[edit] Personal

Jodi Wille is married to Process Media partner and Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey. They live in Los Angeles.[3] Wille and Parfrey are known for hosting private "salons" in their storybook-style compound in Franklin Hills that feature groundbreaking authors, filmmakers and thinkers. Past guests include Les Blank, Daniel Pinchbeck, Erik Davis, Aton Edwards, and members of The Source Family.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ La Weekly: The Outsiders
  2. ^ Publishers Weekly: Outsider Artbook
  3. ^ a b LA Weekly: Feral Child
  4. ^ LA Weekly: Blank Generation

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