Signed; Mimmo Jodice - L'Ïle Méditerranée - 2000

Exceptionally signed copy on the title page by Mimmo Jodice (1934 - 2025), unavailable on the internet as a signed copy. Original edition in French printed and published simultaneously with the Italian edition, the unique Motta Editore edition. 128 pages and 50 black-and-white photographs printed full page. French introductory text by Predrac Matvejevitch. Sturdy publisher's blue cloth-like binding with illustrated dust jacket. In excellent condition, virtually pristine.

Hardly has a photographer-artist achieved such homogeneity and coherence between his being, his past and present work, leaving intact this imperative 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 to me in this sea.” Without Naples and without the sea, our sea, the Mediterranean, Mimmo Jodice’s artistic adventure would be inconceivable, even though his rich life experience is made of constant searching, experiments, and a perpetual quest toward a point that visually coincides with these photographs taken in the early 2000s and dedicated precisely to water: the plastic deck chair, the pebbles on the beach below, and this milky-white sea, contrasting with the grayish sky and yet sparkling – another photograph that stamps its singularity on our eyes, so simple and yet so artificial. (according to Marco Belpoliti)

Mimmo Jodice is one of the greatest Italian photographers of the 20th century. He has gained international recognition all around the world. A self-taught photographer born in 1934 in Naples, he began his artistic activity in the mid-1960s with visual experimentation, creating cut-and-paste studies of images, then progressed in the 1970s toward social denunciation linked to the miserable living conditions of Naples’ population, a vibrant and popular city, and in the 1980s toward an evocative silence of the metaphysical landscape and the Mediterranean archaeology, with a creative language that reflects on time, light, and the 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 of 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 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.

Excellent condition copy, almost like new. A book from my personal collection kept with the utmost care. Protected shipment with reinforced packaging and guaranteed international tracking. For multiple purchases, grouped shipping is possible with reimbursement of any excess postage paid via Paypal.

1.45 kg. excluding packaging