Robert Polidori
(Canadian, born 1951)
Biography
Robert Polidori is a Canadian photographer known for his work documenting architectural spaces and their surrounding environments. Born on February 10, 1951 in Montreal, Canada, his family moved to New York in the late 1960s where he became an assistant to the filmmaker Jonas Mekas at the Anthology Film Archives, who organized Polidori’s first solo exhibition. While living in Paris in the early 1980s, he began documenting the restoration of Versailles, capturing the palace in a rare moment of disarray and emptiness. He has since photographed the interiors of buildings in the aftermath of disasters or under the siege of poverty, such as the inside of a Chernobyl school and the facades of shantytowns—what he calls “dendritic cities”—on the outskirts of places such as Mumbai, Rio, and Amman. Polidori’s photographs of the aftermath of destruction from Hurricane Katrina was the subject of a major retrospective the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 2006, and in 2012 the photographer held a joint exhibition with his mentor Jonas Mekas at Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York.
Robert Polidori Artworks
Robert Polidori
Galerie Basse, Château de Versailles, 1985, 1985
Sale Date: May 27, 2020
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Robert Polidori
New York Public Library Reading Room, 1988, 1988
Sale Date: June 3, 2020
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Questel Staircase, Château de Versailles, 1985
Sale Date: November 5, 2019
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Cabinet Intérieur de Madame Adélaïde,..., 1986
Sale Date: October 25, 2019
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Robert Polidori
Galerie Basse, Château de Versailles, 1985
Sale Date: October 2, 2019
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Robert Polidori
Hotel Suite #1, The Ambassador Hotel, Los..., 2005
Sale Date: October 2, 2019
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Robert Polidori
MERCADERES 265-267, HABANA VIEJA, NO. 2, 1997
Sale Date: September 27, 2019
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Robert Polidori
MERCADERES 265-267, HABANA VIEJA, NO. 1, 1997
Sale Date: September 27, 2019
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-cce.01.041,-corps-central-r.d.c.,-château-de-versailles,-france.jpg "GALERIE BASSE, (51) CCE.01.041, CORPS..., 1986")
Robert Polidori
GALERIE BASSE, (51) CCE.01.041, CORPS..., 1986
Sale Date: September 27, 2019
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Robert Polidori
Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Duchesse..., 1984
Sale Date: October 1, 2019
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Robert Polidori
Cabinet de Beautées, Château de Versailles, 1985
Sale Date: October 1, 2019
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Robert Polidori
LA MERIDIENNE, BED OF MARIE-ANTOINETTE,..., 2007
Sale Date: July 18, 2019
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Robert Polidori
Bassins des Saisons, L'Hiver Ou Saturne by..., 1985
Sale Date: July 17, 2019
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Robert Polidori
View of Central Park from the East, New..., 2004
Sale Date: May 16, 2019
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-anr.02.036,-salles-de-lafrique,-aile-du-nord---1er-etage,-versailles.jpg "SALLE DE CRIMÉE SUD, (99) ANR.02.036, SALLES , 1985")
Robert Polidori
SALLE DE CRIMÉE SUD, (99) ANR.02.036, SALLES , 1985
Sale Date: April 5, 2019
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Robert Polidori
Steinway Piano Factory, Astoria Queens, New..., 2003
Sale Date: April 4, 2019
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Robert Polidori
Salle de l’Afrique, Portrait Achille Bazaine , 1985
Sale Date: November 5, 2018
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Robert Polidori
LA MERIDIENNE, BED OF MARIE-ANTOINETTE,..., 2007
Sale Date: October 3, 2018
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