Robert Polidori
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Robert Polidori (born Montréal, Québec, 1951) is a photographer known for his architectural studies and frequent contributions to magazines and books.
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[edit] Biography
Robert Polidori was born in 1951 in Montreal, Canada, to a French Canadian mother and a Corsican father. He moved to the United States when he was ten and arrived in New York in 1969, where he got as job as an assistant to filmmaker Jonas Mekas at the Anthology Film Archives, producing a number of avant-garde films in the early 1970s. In 1980 he received an M.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and subsequently turned his attention to still photography. He has been living in Paris and New York City since 1987. He is listed as a staff photographer with The New Yorker magazine and makes frequent contributions to other magazines such as Vanity Fair.
[edit] Awards
Polidori has twice been awarded the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography (1999 and 2002), and won the World Press Award for his coverage of the Getty Museum's construction in 1998.
[edit] Books
- After the Flood (2006) 333pp
- Fotografie: Portfolio (2006)
- Metropolis (2005) 128pp
- Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl (2003) 112pp
- Havana (2001) 160pp
- Palm Springs Weekend: The Architecture and Design of a Midcentury Oasis (2001)
- The Levant: History and Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean by Pierre-Louis Gatier, Robert-Louis Gatier, Eric Gubel, and Philippe Marquis (2000)
- Libya: The Lost Cities of the Roman Empire by Antonio Di Vita, Ginette Divita-Evrard, Lidiano Bacchielli, and Robert Polidori (1999)
- Chateaux of the Loire Valley by Jean-Marie Perouse De Montclos and Robert Polidori (1997)
- Sites Greco-Romaines de la Triploitane et Cyrenaique (1997)
- Versailles by Robert Polidori and Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos (1991)
[edit] Solo public exhibitions
Polidori's photographs have been shown in galleries across the world, including the Edwynn Houk, Pace/McGill and Robert Miller Galleries in New York City, Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, Flowers-East in London, several in Paris, and many others.
