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
Villa Isabel, formerly the House of the..., 1997
Sale Date: April 24, 2007
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Señora Faxas residence, Miramar, Havana no. 1, 1997
Sale Date: April 23, 2007
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Downstairs from the Palador La Guarida,..., 1997
Sale Date: November 14, 2006
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Galerie Basse, Château de Versailles, 1985
Sale Date: October 19, 2006
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La Escuela modela, 102 Calle 19, Vedado,..., 1997
Sale Date: October 19, 2006
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406 Empedrado, courtyard, Havana Vieja, 1997
Sale Date: October 19, 2006
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Señor Faxas' residence, Miramar, Havana no. 1, 1997
Sale Date: October 19, 2006
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Living room, 642 East 14th Street, apt. 3,..., 1987
Sale Date: October 18, 2006
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The Canyon Hotel, lobby #1, Murray Canyon..., 1999
Sale Date: October 18, 2006
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Ballet School and National Center for..., 2001
Sale Date: April 26, 2006
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Interior, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2002
Sale Date: April 25, 2006
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La Galerie Basse, no.2, Chateau de Versailles, 1986
Sale Date: April 22, 2006
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Death of Marat, rez-de-chaussée, Château de..., 1985
Sale Date: October 12, 2005
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New York Public Library reading room, New York, 1988
Sale Date: April 28, 2005
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Vintage car with composite parts, Havana, 1997
Sale Date: October 14, 2004
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Grand Central, New York City, 1998, 1998–1998
Sale Date: April 21, 2003
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Ancien vestibule de l'appartemente de..., 1985–1985
Sale Date: October 26, 2002
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