Robert Polidori was born on February 10,1951 and is a Canadian-American photographer known for his large-scale color images of architecture, urban environments and interiors.
18 Facts About Robert Polidori
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Robert Polidori's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, Martin-Gropius-Bau museum, and Moreira Salles Institute.
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Robert Polidori has recorded the architecture and interiors of Havana, the inner-city habitats of Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, and Amman, the post Hurricane Katrina devastation of New Orleans, buildings emptied by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and shelled structures in Beirut.
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Robert Polidori was the cinematographer for the 1980 independent film Personal Problems.
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Robert Polidori was born in 1951 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a French-Canadian mother and a Corsican father.
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At age 9, Robert Polidori's family moved to the United States where his father worked as an engineer at Air Force bases and NASA installations.
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Robert Polidori grew up in Seattle, southern California, New Orleans, and Cocoa Beach, and first attended university in Florida in 1969.
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Robert Polidori became interested in still photography while editing film frame-by-frame.
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Also interested in inner-city habitats or "auto-constructed" growth, Robert Polidori recorded the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, urban sprawl of Brasilia, construction boom in Dubai, and slums of Mumbai.
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In 2002 Robert Polidori was commissioned to photograph Detroit's Michigan Central Station for Metropolis.
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Robert Polidori returned to Beirut in 2010 where he photographed the damaged rooms of the famous Hotel Petra, abandoned during Lebanon's civil war.
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From 2011 to 2015 Robert Polidori revisited and rephotographed Rio as well as Mumbai, including Dharavi's industrial street facade in a series of tracking shots.
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Robert Polidori takes photographs with a large-format analog view-camera using 5x7,8x10, or 11x14 inch color sheet negatives although, at times, uses a medium-format camera.
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Robert Polidori's work includes meticulously framed single images, and multiple images of tracking shots, which are scanned and composited later by digital means.
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Robert Polidori's interest has always lain in making 'psychological portraits' of architectural spaces, which he sees as vessels for memories and as projections of the people who have lived there.
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Robert Polidori's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art: New Filmmakers Program, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, Martin-Gropius-Bau museum and the Instituto Moreira Salles.
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Robert Polidori's work has been shown in private galleries around world including Bykert Gallery, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Mary Boone Gallery, Fontana Gallery, Galerie Karsten Greve, Flowers Gallery, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Galerie de Bellefeuille and Galleria Carla Sozzani.
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Robert Polidori's photographs are included in the collections of Princeton University, Yale University, and New York University.