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
-ami.01.009,-salles-empire,-aile-du-midi---r.d.c,-château-de-versailles,-france.jpg "Vestibule, (73) AMI.01.009, Salles Empire,..., 1985")
Robert Polidori
Ciudadela, 320 Calle 6, Miramar, Havana,..., 1997
Sale Date: April 30, 2024
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Robert Polidori
Ciudadela, 320 Calle 6, Miramar, Havana, No. 1, 1997
Sale Date: April 30, 2024
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Abandoned Theater, Calle San Jose, Havana..., 1997
Sale Date: April 30, 2024
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.jpg "Untitled (Havana), 1997")
Robert Polidori
Annunciation by Fra Angelico, Cell 3, Museum , 2010
Sale Date: April 10, 2024
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Sala Alejo Carpentier, Gran Teatro de la..., 2000
Sale Date: February 22, 2024
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Robert Polidori
2732 Orleans Avenue, New Orleans, LA, 2005, 2005
Sale Date: February 22, 2024
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Robert Polidori
Vintage Car with Composite Parts, Havana, 1997
Sale Date: November 21, 2023
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Salle de L’Afrique, No. 5, Chateau de..., 1985
Sale Date: November 21, 2023
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Death of Marat, Rez-de-Chaussée, Château de..., 1985
Sale Date: October 11, 2023
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-anr.01.011,-salle-du-xvii,-aile.jpg "Salle la création de l'académie de peinture..., 2007")
Robert Polidori
Salle la création de l'académie de peinture..., 2007
Sale Date: September 28, 2023
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Robert Polidori
Salle La Creation De L'Academie De Peinture..., 2007
Sale Date: July 19, 2023
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