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
Ambassador Hotel swimming pool, Los Angeles, , 2005
Sale Date: October 7, 2009
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
La Escuela modela 102 Calle 19, Vedado, Havana, 1997
Sale Date: May 16, 2009
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
6328 North Miro Street, New Orleans, March,..., 2006
Sale Date: May 16, 2009
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
Ancien vestibule de l'appartement de Madame..., 1985
Sale Date: March 31, 2009
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
Death of Marat, Rez-de-Chaussée, Château de..., 1985
Sale Date: March 31, 2009
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
Sala Alejo Carpentier Gran Teatro de la..., 2000
Sale Date: November 19, 2008
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
Ancien vestibule de l'apppartment de Mme...., 1985
Sale Date: October 17, 2008
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
Galerie Basse, Château de Versailles, 1985
Sale Date: October 16, 2008
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
Vintage car with composite parts, Havana, 1997
Sale Date: October 16, 2008
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
Death of Marat, Rez-de-Chaussée, Château de..., 1985
Sale Date: October 13, 2008
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
Self-portrait of the king's portraitist, the , 1985
Sale Date: April 11, 2008
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
Doorway, Samir Geagea headquaters, Beirut,..., 1996
Sale Date: November 20, 2007
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
TWA Terminal no.2, John F. Kennedy Airport,..., 2000
Sale Date: November 13, 2007
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
406 Empedrado, courtyard, Havana Vieja, 1997
Sale Date: October 17, 2007
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
Attique du Midi, salle Napoleonienne no. 1,..., 1985
Sale Date: October 18, 2007
Auction Closed
Robert Polidori
Gallery of battles, Chateau de Versailles, 1985
Sale Date: June 22, 2007
Auction Closed