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.
— Patrizia di Bello
Bibliography
- Jodice, M., Eden, text by G. Celant (1998)
