Enfilade Marie, Chateau Versailles
By Robert Polidori
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From Polidori's ongoing Versailles series, started in 1985
Category
2010s Contemporary Robert Polidori Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Robert Polidori Art
Canadian, American, b. 1951
Photographer Robert Polidori is inspired by the interior environments of everyday life. He is acclaimed for his contemporary style and is known for his visually stunning large-scale color photography. Each image captures the rich details of a place where people have lived, worked, played and loved.
Polidori was born in Montréal, Canada, and moved to the United States as a child. Early in his career, he was an assistant to the celebrated avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas at Anthology Film Archives in New York. This experience shaped his perspectives on photography, particularly the relationship between still images and time. Today, his photographs are a mediation on how architecture conveys history and memory.
Polidori lived in Paris in the early 1980s. While there, he documented the interior restoration of the Palace of Versailles and has returned to photograph its ongoing changes ever since. Polidori also documented the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the deteriorating mansions of Havana, Cuba. In 2005, he photographed the destruction of New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina and later exhibited the photos in a solo show called “After the Flood.”
Polidori’s work is in museum collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec in Montréal and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He is a two-time recipient of the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography (in 1999 and 2000) and was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for photography in 2020. Polidori’s photographs have been the subject of numerous books released by the German publisher Steidl.
In 2015, Polidori moved to Ojai, California, where he continues to live and work. His recent photograph collection, Dendritic Cities, focuses on the urban growth of cities like Mumbai, Amman and Rio de Janeiro.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of Robert Polidori’s photography.
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Artist: Robert Polidori
Salle de XVIIIeme #6, Chateau de Versailles
By Robert Polidori
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Polidori (b. 1951) is world-renowned for his photographs of human habitats and environments. His images depict a range of sites and subjects from around the world ranging from...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Robert Polidori Art
Materials
C Print
Quartel General do Exercito, No. 1
By Robert Polidori
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Polidori (b. 1951) is world-renowned for his photographs of human habitats and environments. His images depict a range of sites and subjects from around the world ranging from...
Category
1990s Contemporary Robert Polidori Art
Materials
C Print
Previously Available Items
L'ORANGERIE VERSAILLES, Garden
By Robert Polidori
Located in New York, NY
A rare and alluring photograph by well know Polidori - desirable for his architectural images. Photograph was framed by a master framer so it is impressively presented in a frame t...
Category
1980s Contemporary Robert Polidori Art
Materials
C Print
Robert PolidoriCabinet Interieur de Mme Adelaide #2, Corps Central - RdC, Versailles, France, 1986
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H 55 in W 45 in
Cabinet Interieur de Mme Adelaide #2, Corps Central - RdC, Versailles, France
By Robert Polidori
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Versailles series, 1985-present
Category
Contemporary Robert Polidori Art
Materials
Pigment
Palm Court Inn, Highway 111
By Robert Polidori
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A color, photographic, chromogenic print depicting a night image of the low slung roof line of a 1960's style motel in Palm Springs, California, the inn lit up against a violet deser...
Category
1990s Contemporary Robert Polidori Art
Materials
Color, Photographic Paper
Questel Staircase, Chateau de Versailles
By Robert Polidori
Located in Vienna, AT
Robert Polidori is a master of spatial aesthetics. His images seem quiet, yet an extraordinary power resides within them. Polidori is able to tell the story of mankind through archit...
Category
20th Century Robert Polidori Art
Robert PolidoriReserve de sculpture, Petites Ecuries R.d.C, Chateau de Versailles, 1985
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Reserve de sculpture, Petites Ecuries R.d.C, Chateau de Versailles
By Robert Polidori
Located in Vienna, AT
Robert Polidori is a master of spatial aesthetics. His images seem quiet, yet an extraordinary power resides within them. Polidori is able to tell the story of mankind through archit...
Category
1980s Robert Polidori Art
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