The
beginnings of Mimmo Jodice (Naples, Italy, 1934), as a photographer occurred
in close contact with the cultural and social fabric of Naples, his native
city, and his photographer's lens participated in the new energies of the
avant-garde art movements that took place there. In the 1970s he experimented
with new technical languages and the material nature of the photographic subject,
at the same time utilizing photography as a tool of social commitment. Beginning
in the 1980s, the human figure is no longer physically present beneath Jodice's
lens. Instead his research focuses on the landscape, understood as the landscape
of nature, of civilization, of memory and of dream.
