Signed; Mimmo Jodice - L'Ïle Méditerranée - 2000

Exceptionally signed copy on the title page by Mimmo Jodice (1934 - 2025) not available on the internet in a signed edition. Original edition in French, printed and published simultaneously with the Italian edition, unique from Motta Editore. 128 pages and 50 black-and-white photographs full-page. Introductory text in French by Predrac Matvejevitch. Solid publisher's blue cloth imitation leather binding with illustrated dust jacket. In excellent condition, practically new.

Rarely does a photographer-artist achieve such homogeneity and coherence between his being, his work past and present, leaving this overriding need to always look at the sea, to the point of saying with the poet Leopardi, who died in Naples in 1837, “and the shipwreck is sweet in this sea.” Without Naples and without the sea, our sea, the Mediterranean, Mimmo Jodice's artistic adventure would be unthinkable, even if his rich life experience is made of constant search, trials, experiments, a perpetual quest toward a point that visually coincides with these shots taken in the early 2000s and dedicated precisely to water: the plastic deck chair, the pebbles on the beach below, and this sea of milky white, contrasting with the grayish sky and yet sparkling – another photograph that stamps his singularity in our eyes, so simple and yet so artificial. All of this leads one to believe that Mimmo Jodice blends into these same photographs, so precise, so exact, so unique and yet so enigmatic. (according to Marco Belpoliti)

Mimmo Jodice is one of the greatest Italian photographers of the 20th century. He has achieved international recognition almost everywhere around the world. A self-taught photographer born in 1934 in Naples, he began his artistic activity in the mid-1960s with visual experimentation and created experiments in cutting and collaging images, then in the 1970s moved toward social denunciation related to the miserable living conditions of the population of Naples, a city lively and popular, and toward the 1980s toward an evocative silence of the metaphysical landscape and Mediterranean archaeology, with a creative language that reflects on time, light and the very act of seeing. 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 presented his work in France on several occasions, notably within the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles as well as at a retrospective at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris in 2010, which gave rise to the publication of an important catalog.

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1,450 kg. excluding packaging