[ Mimmo Jodice ] an amazing italian philosopher.

Visioni della Concattedrale Gran Madre di Dio, Taranto

he is a photographer who transforms into presences, or figures if you like, the very elements of landscape. He has built his philosophy on the relationship between the flagrancy of real facts and intellectual influences.
Back in 1974 he had published a book entitled “The Devout” and he has always had an eye for manifestations of popular religiousness. He has long been inspired too by masterpieces of a different religiousness. The kind that produced the sculptures and buildings of the classical Mediterranean world.

Since the 1980s. He has concentrated instead on landscape and architecture, or on what might perhaps better be described as places.

Mimmo Jodice’s photography

Candelabri, 1987, 56,5×46,5 cm, Tecnica: gelatine silver print, Description: n. 4 from an edition of 6

Strombolicchio, 2000, 58×46,5 cm, Tecnica: gelatine silver print, Description: n. 1 from an edition of 8

Cuma, 1992, 55×44,5 cm

Biography
Jodice, Mimmo (b. 1934), Italian photographer, born in Naples, and one of the first in Italy to articulate the centrality of the photographic image in contemporary culture. Active since the 1970s, also as a photography teacher at the Naples Academy, he has exhibited and published internationally. He is known especially for his haunting photographs of Naples, capturing its jarring mixture of past and present, beauty and dilapidation (Naples: une archéologie future, 1982); and for documenting the Conceptual art scene in Italy. His images often explore the nature of objects not as cultural signs but as fetishes, reconstructing and reanimating a specific Neapolitan identity, marginalized and commodified by dominant Italian culture.

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