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
2600 Block of Munster Boulevard, New..., 2005
Sale Date: October 7, 2021
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Robert Polidori
Versailles, Salles d'Afrique, Painting of..., 2007
Sale Date: October 7, 2021
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Robert Polidori
Sala Alejo Carpentier, Gran Teatro de la..., 2000
Sale Date: October 7, 2021
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,-habana-vieja.jpg "Teatro Capitolo, later..., 1997")
Robert Polidori
Industrial Canal Breach, Reynes Street, 2006
Sale Date: October 5, 2021
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Robert Polidori
6013 St. Anthony Avenue, New Orleans, 2005
Sale Date: October 7, 2021
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Robert Polidori
St. George's Room, Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, 2005
Sale Date: June 9, 2021
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Robert Polidori
2732 Orleans Avenue, New Orleans, L. A, 2005
Sale Date: April 7, 2021
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Robert Polidori
Kuwait Stock Exchange #1, Kuwait City, Kuwait, 2007
Sale Date: April 8, 2021
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Robert Polidori
Bassins des Saisons, L'hiver ou Saturne by..., 1985
Sale Date: April 8, 2021
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Robert Polidori
Vintage Car with Composite Parts, Havana, 1997
Sale Date: April 8, 2021
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Robert Polidori
Galerie de Pierre, Aile de Nord 1er étage,..., 1985
Sale Date: November 10, 2020
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Robert Polidori
Coffee Shop #2, The Ambassador Hotel, Los..., 2005
Sale Date: October 28, 2020
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Robert Polidori
Les derniers jours de Napoléon, MV 5046, by..., 2005
Sale Date: October 14, 2020
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,-miramar,-havana,-1997.jpg "Señor Luisa Faxas Residence, 2 #318 (At the..., 1997")
Robert Polidori
Señor Luisa Faxas Residence, 2 #318 (At the..., 1997
Sale Date: September 30, 2020
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-cce.01.041,-corps-central-r.d.c.,-château-de-versailles,-france.jpg "GALERIE BASSE, (51) CCE.01.041, CORPS..., 1986")
Robert Polidori
GALERIE BASSE, (51) CCE.01.041, CORPS..., 1986
Sale Date: October 1, 2020
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