Mimmo Jodice Photographs

[michael_alpert1]

I've been looking at a book of Mimmo Jodice's medium format

photographs, entitled Mediterranean, published by Aperture in 1995.

Jodice uses several techniques for achieving unusual images. I see that

some photographs are double exposures, but others have a distortion

coming from the center of the image. Other images have a similar

distortion at the bottom third of the image. It's not a shallow depth

of field or camera shake (portions of the image are clear and in

focus), but it looks like a kind of motion. (It is hard to describe

Jodice's images accurately.) And it is the kind of thing that could

easily degenerate into a trick, though Jodice does seem to be working

as an engaged mature artist. Anyway, it really bothers me that I cannot

understand the technique, and I would appreciate ideas from anyone who

is familar with Mimmo Jodice's work.