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
Biltmore Hotel coffee shop, Palm Springs, CA, 1997
Sale Date: October 7, 2010
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Robert Polidori
1553 Fairfax Avenue, West Los Angeles, CA, 2007
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Attique du midi, salle Napoléonienne no.1,..., 1985
Sale Date: October 6, 2010
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Robert Polidori
Marat rez-de-Chaussée, chateau de Versailles, 1985
Sale Date: May 20, 2010
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Robert Polidori
Ambassador Hotel swimming pool, Los Angeles, , 2005
Sale Date: May 20, 2010
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Robert Polidori
Salles du XVIIIeme, Chateau de Versailles, 2005
Sale Date: May 20, 2010
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Cabinet Interieur de Madame Adelaide,..., 1986
Sale Date: April 15, 2010
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Robert Polidori
Napoléon Reçoit à Finkelstein Rez à Bey, 27..., 2005
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Self-portrait of the King's portraitist, the , 1985
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Robert Polidori
Salon des Glaces, Grand Trianon, Château de..., 1988
Sale Date: April 15, 2010
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Robert Polidori
Kuwait Exchange no. 1, Kuwait City, Kuwait, 2007
Sale Date: March 6, 2010
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Robert Polidori
Salle de la Smalah, Chateau de Versailles, 1985
Sale Date: October 15, 2009
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Robert Polidori
Abandoned farmhouse, Schaty farm, Slope..., 2000
Sale Date: October 7, 2009
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Robert Polidori
Peterson's Store, Manfred, North Dakota, 2000
Sale Date: October 7, 2009
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Robert Polidori
2732 Orleans Avenue, New Orleans, LA, 2005
Sale Date: October 7, 2009
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