Signed Mimmo Jodice - Città visibile - Visible Cities - 2006

Exceptionally dedicated and signed on the title page by Mimmo Jodice (1934 - 2025), original edition unique and unobtainable on the internet in a signed copy, extremely rare in an unsigned copy. 144 pages and 62 black-and-white photographs printed full-page, most on recto only. Introductory texts in Italian and English by Stefano Boeri and Benedetto Gravagnuola, Mimmo Jodice’s two-page text titled “Voir, observer, imaginer” supplemented by an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist. Solid publisher’s hardcover binding illustrated on the cover. In excellent condition (almost like new).

Mimmo Jodice gathers in this book a series of photographs from some major metropolises (in New York, Tokyo, São Paulo, Rome, Boston, Paris, Moscow and Naples) taken with his usual large-format camera, which he developed himself in his darkroom where he prints all his photographs. He teaches us to look at architecture with passion, sensitivity, and simplicity. Among a hundred honorary recognitions, Mimmo Jodice was awarded an honorary Doctor of Architecture degree.

Mimmo Jodice is one of the greatest Italian photographers of the 20th century and has gained international recognition around the world; his architectural photographs were made for exhibitions that allowed him to travel extensively. A self-taught photographer born in 1934 in Naples, he began his artistic activity in the mid-1960s with visual experimentation, creating cuts and collages of images, and then in the 1970s shifted toward social denunciation related to the miserable living conditions of the population of Naples, a city vibrant and popular, and in the 1980s toward an evocative silence of the metaphysical landscape and Mediterranean archaeology, with a creative language that reflects on time, light, and the act of seeing itself. In 1983-1984 Mimmo Jodice also participated in the project “Viaggio in Italia” with Luigi Ghirri and about ten other emerging Italian photographers at the time, such as Guido Guidi, Mario Cresci, Olivo Barbieri, Vittore Fossati. Mimmo Jodice has presented his work in France on several occasions, notably within the framework of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles, as well as during a retrospective at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris in 2010, which led to the publication of an important catalogue.

Book from my personal collection, in excellent condition, practically like new, book kept with the greatest care. Very effectively protected shipping and internationally insured tracking.

1.3 kg. without packaging.