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
5979 West End Boulevard, New Orleans, LA, 2005
Sale Date: April 6, 2017
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Robert Polidori
View of Central Park and Trump Tower from..., 2003
Sale Date: April 4, 2017
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Robert Polidori
5979 WEST END BOULEVARD, NEW ORLEANS, SEPTEMBER,
Sale Date: November 3, 2016
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Robert Polidori
5526 Chatham Street, New Orleans, LA, 2006
Sale Date: October 25, 2016
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CABINET DES BEAUTÉES, CHÂTEAU DE VERSAILLES, 1985
Sale Date: July 28, 2016
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Robert Polidori
5979 West End Boulevard, New Orleans, September
Sale Date: April 4, 2016
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Robert Polidori
Marat, Rez-de-Chausée, Aile du Midi, Château , 1985
Sale Date: April 4, 2016
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Robert Polidori
La Meridienne, Marie-Antoinette's Bed,..., 2007
Sale Date: October 8, 2015
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Robert Polidori
Réserve des Bustes, Château de Versailles, 1985
Sale Date: October 6, 2015
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Robert Polidori
Señora Faxas Residence No. 1, Miramar, Havana, 1997
Sale Date: October 6, 2015
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,-centro-habana.jpg "DOWNSTAIRS FROM THE PALADAR LA GUARIDA,..., 1997")
Robert Polidori
DOWNSTAIRS FROM THE PALADAR LA GUARIDA,..., 1997
Sale Date: October 7, 2015
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,-habana-vieja.jpg "PASEO DEL PRADO 105 (BETWEEN GENIOS AND..., 1997")
Robert Polidori
PASEO DEL PRADO 105 (BETWEEN GENIOS AND..., 1997
Sale Date: October 7, 2015
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Robert Polidori
HAVANA COLONIAL, CUBA, 16 MERCADERES, NO.1, 1997
Sale Date: October 7, 2015
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,-miramar.jpg "SEÑORA LUISA FAXAS RESIDENCE, 2 #318 (AT THE , 1997")
Robert Polidori
SEÑORA LUISA FAXAS RESIDENCE, 2 #318 (AT THE , 1997
Sale Date: October 7, 2015
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,-vedado.jpg "ESCUELA MODELO, 19 #102 (AT THE CORNER OF..., 1997")
Robert Polidori
ESCUELA MODELO, 19 #102 (AT THE CORNER OF..., 1997
Sale Date: October 7, 2015
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.jpg "Untitled (Mul Chowk, Patan), 2008")
.jpg "Untitled (Krishna Mandir, Patan), 2008")
Robert Polidori
Ciudadela, formerly the house of Countess..., 1997
Sale Date: July 22, 2015
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Robert Polidori
Residence de la familia, el Cerro, Havana,..., 1997
Sale Date: July 22, 2015
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,-vedado.jpg "Home of Mercedes Alfonso, Línea, 508..., 1997")
Robert Polidori
Home of Mercedes Alfonso, Línea, 508..., 1997
Sale Date: July 22, 2015
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Robert Polidori
Michel Anguier by Jacques d’Agar, 1675,..., 1984
Sale Date: May 21, 2015
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