Domenico Jodice

Place: Naples

Born: 1934

Biography:

Mimmo Jodice is an Italian photographer born in Naples in 1934. He was a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli from 1970 to 1996. Since the 1960s, Jodice has worked with many artists of various styles such as Pop art, Arte Povera, or Fluxus. He is known for his work as a documentary photographer of conceptual art, making photographs of artists like Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, or Robert Rauschenberg. Later, he focused on landscape and sceneries, becoming one of the significant Italian photographers. Jodice dealt mainly with Italian landscapes and cities, using exclusively black-and-white films. He worked on the concept of time, connecting the old and the new, such as run-down monuments and views of modern cities. 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 Turin. Jodice won the Feltrinelli Prize (photography) in 2003.