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
Salle du Maroc, Salles de l’Afrique, Aile du , 1983
Sale Date: May 21, 2015
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Chambre de Marie-Louise Bonaparte, Petit..., 2008
Sale Date: May 23, 2015
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Robert Polidori
Self-Portrait of the King's Portraitist, The , 1985
Sale Date: March 31, 2015
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Robert Polidori
Ancien Vestibule de l'Appartement de Madame..., 1985
Sale Date: April 2, 2015
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Vintage car with composite parts, Havana, 1997
Sale Date: April 2, 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: April 2, 2015
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Robert Polidori
2520 Deslondes Street, New Orleans, LA, 2006, 2006
Sale Date: March 31, 2015
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Robert Polidori
6328 North Miro Street, New Orleans, LA, 2006, 2006
Sale Date: March 31, 2015
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Robert Polidori
6328 North Miro Street, New Orleans, March, 2006
Sale Date: March 4, 2015
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Robert Polidori
Self-Portrait of the King's Portraitist, The , 1985
Sale Date: November 14, 2014
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Robert Polidori
Ancien vestibule de l'appartement de Madame..., 1985
Sale Date: November 14, 2014
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Robert Polidori
Le serment du jeu de paume, attique de Chimay, 1986
Sale Date: November 14, 2014
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Robert Polidori
Attique du Nord, no. 2, Château de Versailles, 1986
Sale Date: November 14, 2014
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Robert Polidori
5979 West End Boulevard, New Orleans,..., 2005
Sale Date: October 17, 2014
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,-centro-habana.jpg "Calzada de Infanta (Between Humboldt and..., 1997")
Robert Polidori
Calzada de Infanta (Between Humboldt and..., 1997
Sale Date: October 1, 2014
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,-centro-habana.jpg "Edificio Solimar, Soledad #205 (Between San..., 2001")
Robert Polidori
Edificio Solimar, Soledad #205 (Between San..., 2001
Sale Date: October 1, 2014
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Robert Polidori
Napoleon Reçoit à Finkelstein, Reza Bey, 27..., 2005
Sale Date: October 1, 2014
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Robert Polidori
Réserve des Bustes, Château de Versailles, 1985
Sale Date: September 29, 2014
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Robert Polidori
Señora Faxas Residence No. 1, Miramar, Havana, 1997
Sale Date: September 29, 2014
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Robert Polidori
5979 West End boulevard, New Orleans,..., 2005
Sale Date: September 23, 2014
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Robert Polidori
Questel Staircase, Château de Versailles, 1985
Sale Date: July 1, 2014
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Robert Polidori
Vintage car with composite parts, Havana, 1997
Sale Date: May 8, 2014
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