SIGNED Mimmo Jodice - Il grande libro della Campania - 1985

Exceptionally signed on the title page by Mimmo Jodice (1934–2025), a unique copy, impossible to find signed and now practically impossible to find unsigned online. 188 pages and approximately 150 color photographs, with texts in Italian by Domenico Rea and Francesco Rosi, as well as a one-page text by Mimmo Jodice on Naples, “a city loved and hated.” Sturdy publisher’s illustrated hardback binding. In excellent condition.

This book on the region around Naples, Campania, was published as part of a Mondadori series covering all the regions of Italy. The volume on Sicily was produced by Ferdinando Scianna, the one on Emilia-Romagna by Franco Fontana, and the one on the Veneto region by Gianni Berengo Gardin (see the other listings concerning them in this same sale). All the books in this series are organized into different chapters: The Land and Its People, Cities and Countryside, Living in the Region, Beyond the Region, With and Without Nostalgia.

Mimmo Jodice is one of the greatest Italian photographers of the 20th century and has earned international recognition around the world. His architectural photographs were made on the occasion of exhibitions that enabled him to travel extensively around the world. A self-taught photographer born in Naples in 1934, he began his artistic career in the mid-1960s with visual experimentation, exploring image cropping and collage. In the 1970s, his work turned toward social criticism of the wretched living conditions of the people of Naples, a vibrant, working-class city; in the 1980s, it moved toward an evocative silence inspired by metaphysical landscapes and Mediterranean archaeology, using a creative language that reflects on time, light, and the very act of seeing. In 1983–1984, Mimmo Jodice also took part in the “Viaggio in Italia” project with Luigi Ghirri and around a dozen other Italian photographers who were then emerging, including Guido Guidi, Mario Cresci, Olivo Barbieri, and Vittore Fossati. Mimmo Jodice has presented his work in France on several occasions, notably at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, as well as in a retrospective at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris in 2010, which led to the publication of a substantial catalogue.

Copy in excellent condition, with slight age-related wear (see photo). Book from my personal collection, carefully preserved in its current condition. Shipped with protective reinforced packaging and guaranteed international postal tracking.

1 kg excluding packaging