From a still, rain-glazed alley in Rome to a mountain road careening through the Dolomites, from a moment of silent intimacy with the sculpture of David to a sun-baked street in Naples, Mimmo Jodice infuses his images of Italy with a fascinating appeal. At once a photographer, a documentarian and a magic realist, Jodice creates images marked by their somewhat dizzying sense of movement, achieved by a slight blurring or zooming of the camera, giving volume and substance to the ordinary and unnoticed.

ITALY: LOST IN SEEING: PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIMMO JODICE /ANGLAIS

Arts & Photography

Jodice, Mimmo

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

Mimmo Jodice, one of Italy's finest photographers, has set out like a modern Odysseus on an epic journey that he describes as "a voyage in search of the past." The result, Mediterranean, is Jodice's most personal and significant undertaking to date. Not content merely to document archaeological sites and artifacts, Jodice has aimed to rediscover a sense of the Classical universe, presenting it in a vivid and original way.From Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, Tunisia, Syria, and Jordan, Jodice's luminous photographs evoke a vision of Mediterranean civilization that is a conflation of history and mythology. His dramatic yet ethereal images refuse both classical and contemporary boundaries in a fusion of the topographical and the intimate. Ruined temples, lost cities, heroic landscapes, gods and goddesses, vistas of Vesuvius and of the omnipresent sea transcend the constraints of their historical context in terms of both time and space.At the same time, Mimmo Jodice's artful darkroom interventions give these images a renewed energy, one that is born of the present material world, but which seems sustained by loftier, more elusive mysteries. He begins with black-and-white negatives, and then works in the darkroom to create the simultaneous presence of a multiplicity of tones. Jodice's treatment of the photographic paper gives the images a suggestion of movement-- they vibrate with the sense, as he puts it, that "everything is fleeting and somewhat impregnable."Jodice's deeply original work reveals not only an experimental creative process, but also an informed and unique vision addressing a subject matter-- archaeology-- that has never before been considered in this way. His particular interpretations of such Classical icons remind of the continuing impact of the Mediterranean world on our present lives, and reinstill a sense of epic, of adventure, of wonder, and even of providence-- all so often missing in contemporary culture. Jodice provides us with a vision of the Mediterranean that is rich and vast, letting symbolic images become links between the experience of diverse peoples and between ourselves and our distant ancestors.Mediterranean includes essays by distinguished Yale University art historian George Hersey, and renowned Slavic writer and scholar Predrag Matvejevic."This collection of images implies the destiny of a nomad. We accompany Jodice into his chosen places, on both the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean. The camera follows paths that we thought we understood, showing us what we never perceived."--Predrag Matvejevic"...Looking at these places, almost always the camera chooses a center with radiating shafts or strata of stone that move from a white center out into a dark, irregular periphery, a shimmering sight that is perhaps equivalent to echoing music or the shouts of invisible nymphs."--George Hersey

Mediterranean

Travel

Hersey, George L.

Matvejevic, Predrag

Middle East

Aperture

"Nothing to Paris can ever be compared."--Eustache Deschamps, 1375 Anyone who has visited Paris understands this: it is the city by which others may be measured, in inexhaustible place that takes root in one's soul. Countless people-- artists, tourists, professional photographers-- have taken the city's measure. But Mimmo Jodice is the first to capture Paris as it catapults into an unknown future. Jodice's Paris is not the romanticized Paris of the popular imagination; it is a city undergoing a radical transformation. Before his lens, Paris is unfamiliar; even its landmarks vibrate with movement and possibility. In these extraordinary photographs, Jodice disrupts conventional notions of time and space, revealing Paris's momentum as it verges upon the millennium. "As an artist," wrote Nietzsche, "a man has no home...save Paris." Throughout the centuries, this city has been a thematic focus for artists of all kinds, from François Rabelais to Claude Simon, from Benevenuto Cellini to Maurice Utrillo. The very first photography Daguerre made was of a Parisian street, pedestrians smudged out of existence by the long exposure. Later photographers-- Atget, Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson, and countless others-- have all documented what they saw of the unique life and beauty of the city. But not until now has a photographer captured the city itself in transition. Jodice's Paris is both a familiar Paris-- a Paris of classical grace-- and one of sharp-edged raw newness and speed. From a still, rain-glazed alley in the Latin Quarter to the sleek geometry of I. M. Pei's pyramid at the Louvre; from a moment of silent intimacy with one of the sculptures at the Musée Rodin to a superhighway careening through a tangle of glass towers-- Jodice discovers in Paris the soul within the inanimate, the whirlwind of life that secretly infuses the very stones of the city. Spaces designed for human interaction-- a banquet hall, gardens, museum steps, a Metro station-- although conspicuously vacant, tremble with vitality. In Paris: City of Light, Jodice's remarkable photographs are supplemented by reflections on the city by some of history's greatest writers and thinkers-- including Charles Baudelaire, F. T. Marinetti, Raymond Queneau, and others. Their words together with Jodice's luminous photographs provide a renewed vision of the world's best-loved city, by one of the world's most revered photographers. Jodice's photographs in Paris: City of Light were commissioned by the City of Paris and are part of an exhibition opening in May 1998 at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. "Through the images featured in this book, Mimmo Jodice joins the prestigious lineage of the city's photographers who, like Marville or Atget, have known how to celebrate, through their art, Paris and her metamorphoses."--Jean-Luc Monterosso, Director, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, from the Foreword

Paris: City of Light

La città invisibile: Nuove vedute di Napoli (Italian Edition)

Electa

The great Italian master of black and white photography Mimmo Jodice was commissioned by the Massachusetts College of Art to capture the heart of contemporary Boston, highlighting the soul of this once maritime town, residence of New England's cultural and historical elite, and now home to a surprising array of innovative architectural design and urban renovation. Jodice's challenge was to portray Boston's past and its future as a unified whole. A powerful and innovative photographic journey consisting of 50 black and white photographs of urban Boston and the surrounding landscapes, Jodice's pieces are characterized by dramatic contrasts of light and shadow accompanied by fast moving and sometimes fleeting images which playfully bring to life the essence of the modern city. This is a personal vision of Boston: a romantic Gardner Museum, derelict and abandoned waterfronts and piers, and spacious city squares and legendary graveyards: taken together these photographs carefully recount the history and glimpse into the future of America's first city. This spectacular volume opens with an introduction by art historians Ellen Shapiro and David Nolta, who analyze Jodice's Boston work in the context of his previous work. Students of photography, modern art lovers, photography collectors, and Boston natives will revel in this special and modern view of Boston.

Inlands: A Vision of Boston

Skira

Procida. Un'architettura del Mediterraneo. Ediz. italiana e inglese

Cosenza, Giancarlo

CLEAN

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