Signed; Mimmo Jodice - Passé intérieur [Unavailable on the web] - 1993

Copy in excellent condition, exceptionally signed and dedicated on the title page by Mimmo Jodice (1934 - 2025), unique and unavailable in a signed copy. 156 pages and more than a hundred black-and-white photographs in very fine full-page print quality, text in French by Roberta Valtorta, biography and bibliography. Sturdy publisher's gray hardcover binding with the title debossed in black and an illustrated dust jacket.

"This book covers 25 years of intense photographic activity in reportage, portraiture, or landscape. Mimmo Jodice also invites us, like Ulysses, to an odyssey through time and the light of the South, in search of a lost past." (according to the text of the jacket blurb).

Mimmo Jodice is one of the greatest Italian photographers of the 20th century and has achieved international recognition 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 undertook explorations of cuts and collages of images, then in the 1970s moved toward social denunciation linked to the miserable living conditions of the population of the city of Naples, vibrant and popular, and toward the 1980s a evoked silence of the metaphysical landscape and the Mediterranean archaeology, with a creative language that reflects on time, light and the act of seeing itself. 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 at 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 50 years after its publication, considering its manufacture of perfect quality (fold-out sections, sturdy binding). Very slight yellowing of the dust jacket (see photo), book kept with the utmost care. Very efficient protected shipping and guaranteed international tracked mail.

1.75 kg excluding packaging.