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
Interior de l'Orangerie, Château de..., 1984
Sale Date: October 2, 2018
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Robert Polidori
Galerie Basse, Château de Versailles, 1985, 1985
Sale Date: September 12, 2018
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Robert Polidori
La Méridienne, Marie-Antoinette’s Bed,..., 2007
Sale Date: May 18, 2018
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Robert Polidori
Home of Mercedes Alfonso Linea, Vedado,..., 1997
Sale Date: May 5, 2018
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Robert Polidori
Death of Marat, Rez-de-Chaussée, Versailles, 1985
Sale Date: April 6, 2018
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Robert Polidori
QUESTEL STAIRCASE, CHÂTEAU DE VERSAILLES, 1985
Sale Date: April 10, 2018
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Robert Polidori
LA MERIDIENNE, BED OF MARIE-ANTOINETTE,..., 2007
Sale Date: April 10, 2018
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Robert Polidori
VIEW OF CENTRAL PARK TOWARD THE EAST, NY, NY, 2000
Sale Date: April 10, 2018
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Robert Polidori
Aile du Nord - 1er étage, Château de..., 1985
Sale Date: December 14, 2017
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Robert Polidori
6013 St. Anthony Avenue, New Orleans LA, 2005
Sale Date: November 28, 2017
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Robert Polidori
Interior de l'Orangerie, Château de..., 1984
Sale Date: October 2, 2017
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Interrupted Highway, Gabbari, Alexandria,..., 1999
Sale Date: October 3, 2017
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Robert Polidori
Façades, El Malecón, Havana, Cuba, No. 1,..., 1997
Sale Date: October 3, 2017
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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: September 28, 2017
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-ami.01.009,-salles-empire,-aile-du-midi---r.d.c.,-versailles.jpg "VESTIBULE, (73) AMI.01.009, SALLES EMPIRE,..., 1985")
Robert Polidori
VESTIBULE, (73) AMI.01.009, SALLES EMPIRE,..., 1985
Sale Date: September 28, 2017
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Robert Polidori
VIEW OF CENTRAL PARK TOWARD THE EAST, NEW..., 2000
Sale Date: September 28, 2017
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Robert Polidori
Versailles, Attique du Midi, Detail of Door..., 2007
Sale Date: May 18, 2017
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Robert Polidori
Sala Alejo Carpentier, Gran Teatro de la..., 2000
Sale Date: May 18, 2017
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Robert Polidori
QUESTEL STAIRCASE, CHÂTEAU DE VERSAILLES, 1985
Sale Date: April 5, 2017
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.jpg "THE SMALAH ROOM, VERSAILLES (TWO OVAL..., 1985")
Robert Polidori
THE SMALAH ROOM, VERSAILLES (TWO OVAL..., 1985
Sale Date: April 5, 2017
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