Mimmo Jodice - polaroid sx70 di Augusto De Luca

Domenico "Mimmo" Jodice (born 24 March 1934, in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

) is an Italian photographer. He was professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli from 1970 to 1996.

Life and career

Since the 1960s Jodice worked with many artists of various styles like Pop art, Arte Povera or

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. As a

documentary photographer Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life. It is typically undertaken as professional pho ...

of conceptual art Jodice made photographs of artists, e.g.

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the Art movement, visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore th ...

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oder Robert Rauschenberg. Later he focussed on landscape, and sceneries. In that field Jodice became one of the significant Italian photographers. Jodice dealt mainly with Italian landscapes and cities, using exclusively

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films. Jodice worked on the concept of time, connecting the old and the new, such as run-down monuments and views of modern cities. An example is the series ''LOST IN SEEING. Dreams and Visions of Italy'', whose effect is described by the essayist Alessandro Mauro as follows: "In Jodice’s work silence takes over places and the photographs become metaphysical visions, an interweaving of the signs of the past as they return to inhabit the present". Very well known are the views on Jodice's home town

, for example the series ''Naples: une archéologie future''.

Exhibitions

Among many exhibitions worldwide, Jodice's works are exhibited at the Aperture Foundation in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris or the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in

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.Short biography

Awards

Jodice won the

Feltrinelli Prize The Feltrinelli Prize (from the Italian "Premio Feltrinelli", also known as "International Feltrinelli Prize" or "Antonio Feltrinelli Prize") is an award for achievement in the arts, music, literature, history, philosophy, medicine, and physical and ...

(photography) in 2003.

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