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
Salon des glaces, Grand Trianon, Château de..., 1988
Sale Date: June 6, 2023
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Robert Polidori
A Portrait of Francoise-Marie de Bourbon,..., 1991
Sale Date: May 24, 2023
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Robert Polidori
Self-Portrait of the King's Portraitist, The , 1985
Sale Date: December 15, 2022
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Robert Polidori
Cadre vide, Château de Versailles, 1983–1990
Sale Date: November 22, 2022
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-anr.02.007,-salles-du-xvii,-aile-du-nord---1er-étage,.jpg "Salle St Cyr et de Madame de Maintenon, (89) , 2008")
Robert Polidori
Salle St Cyr et de Madame de Maintenon, (89) , 2008
Sale Date: November 22, 2022
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-cce.01.058,-corps-central-–-r.d.c,-château-de.jpg "Cabinet intérieur de Madame Adélaide, (56 C) , 1986")
Robert Polidori
Cabinet intérieur de Madame Adélaide, (56 C) , 1986
Sale Date: November 22, 2022
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Robert Polidori
VERSAILLES, CHAMBRE DU ROI, BED OF LOUIS XIV, 2007
Sale Date: December 2, 2022
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.jpg "LA GALERIE BASSE (Chateau de Versailles), 1986")
Robert Polidori
LA GALERIE BASSE (Chateau de Versailles), 1986
Sale Date: December 2, 2022
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Robert Polidori
VERSAILLE, CHAMBRE DE LA REINE, DETAIL OF..., 2007
Sale Date: December 2, 2022
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.jpg "LA GALERIE DES GLACES (Chateau de Versailles), 1988")
Robert Polidori
LA GALERIE DES GLACES (Chateau de Versailles), 1988
Sale Date: December 2, 2022
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-anr.01.011,-sale-du-xvii,-aile-du.jpg "Salle la création de l'académie de Peinture..., 2007")
Robert Polidori
Salle la création de l'académie de Peinture..., 2007
Sale Date: October 12, 2022
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Robert Polidori
Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saints by..., 2010
Sale Date: October 12, 2022
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Robert Polidori
Salle de Bain, Marie-Antoinette, Versailles, , 2006
Sale Date: October 6, 2022
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Robert Polidori
Industrial Canal breach, Reynes Street, New..., 2005
Sale Date: July 5, 2022
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.jpg "Velours frappé et l'Echelle (from Château de , 1985")
Robert Polidori
Velours frappé et l'Echelle (from Château de , 1985
Sale Date: May 19, 2022
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Robert Polidori
2520 Deslondes, New Orleans, September, 2005
Sale Date: April 6, 2022
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Robert Polidori
New York Public Library, Reading Room, New..., 1988
Sale Date: November 9, 2021
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Robert Polidori
Cadre Vide, Château de Versailles , 1985, 1985
Sale Date: November 9, 2021
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Robert Polidori
Cabinet des beautées, Château de Versailles, , 1985
Sale Date: October 6, 2021
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Robert Polidori
2732 Orleans Avenue, New Orleans, LA, 2005, 2005
Sale Date: October 6, 2021
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