Mourning in the world of culture: passed away Mimmo Jodice

Mimmo Jodice one of the last masters of twentieth-century photography has passed away.

A Neapolitan from Sanità, class of '34, Jodice took his first steps at the Academy of Fine Arts in Via Costantinopoli. After his early experiments, his artistic career centered on Naples, with its social, historical and landscape reality. His photographs are a socio-anthropological investigation of popular culture, rituals, and people's daily lives. Numerous are his works on festivals, religious rituals of the south, problems of mental illness and social marginalization.

In 2006, the honorary degree in Architecture conferred on him by the University of Frederick. A recognition of the career of one of the most interesting artistic personalities in the national and international cultural reality.

Mimmo Jodice has represented one of the great names in photography, whose artistic contribution translates different realities into images, bringing to light unprecedented representations of the urban landscape. Always attentive to the experimentations and possibilities of the photographic language, in more than sixty years of his career, he allowed the affirmation of Italian photography on the international scene with exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Louvre, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the Capodimonte Museum, the Mart, and the Masp in São Paulo, Brazil.

The funeral chamber will be set up, Thursday, Oct. 30, from 12 to 4:30 p.m. at the Maschio Angioino, a symbolic place dear to the artist, and which hosted his last major exhibition "Napoli Metafisica."