Signed Mimmo Jodice - Vedute di Napoli - 1980

Exceptionally signed copy on the title page by Mimmo Jodice (1934 - 2025), unique and unattainable as a signed copy and practically unavailable as an unsigned copy. 120 pages and about 80 black-and-white photographs, most full-page printing on recto only, texts in Italian by Giuseppe Bonini. Illustrated soft flexible binding in the cover. In excellent condition.

Mimmo Jodice specifies that this book on the Vues de Naples marked a decisive turning point in his photographic writing, which would mark all his subsequent production. A committed photographer, he recalls the great hopes for political changes that were disappointed in this period of the years of ebb and how they were named at the time. In these images, the atmosphere is somewhat suspended, rarefied and quasi-metaphysical, and the void, absence, and silence dominate and contrast with a few images from the early period that appear in the first in-text part.

Mimmo Jodice is one of the greatest Italian photographers of the 20th century and he has achieved international recognition almost everywhere in the world. Self-taught photographer born in 1934 in Naples, he began his artistic activity in the mid-1960s with visual experimentation and created works of image cuts and collages, then in the 1970s he evolved toward social denunciation related to the miserable living conditions of Naples’ population, a city that is lively and popular, and in the 1980s toward a 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 a dozen 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 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, almost like new, the book has been kept with the greatest care. Very effectively protected shipping and guaranteed international tracking.

0,350 kg. excluding packaging.