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.
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...
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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...
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Me myself, I
By Klaus Leidorf
Located in New York, NY
From the "Lost series". An aerial photography that was not manipulated or color corrected.
Plexiglass, C Print
"Sky Cab #1" Type C Metallic Print
By Jen Zahigian
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jen's love of photography began as a child, when her grandfather, a photographer, gave her a camera. However, it wasn't until she graduated from UC Berkeley that photography became a...
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Lost 11
By Klaus Leidorf
Located in New York, NY
From the "Lost" series. An aerial photography that was not manipulated or color corrected.
C Print, Plexiglass
Alice in Wonderland
By Alice Zilberberg
Located in New York, NY
Alice Zilberberg is an award-winning Fine-Art Photographer. She was born in Tallinn, Estonia, raised in Israel, and is now based in Toronto, Canada. Since graduating from Ryerson Uni...
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$16,000
H 70.87 in W 94.49 in D 0.04 in
Italian Contemporary Art by Gianfranco Pezzot - Unconscious Displacement
By Gianfranco Pezzot
Located in Paris, IDF
Digital C-Type print on Kodak Endura photo paper Edition of 6 + 2 AP
Photographic Paper, C Print
Part 1: Silver Lining
By Nicole Furman
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media art installation and photography
C Print, Plexiglass
$16,000
H 70.87 in W 94.49 in D 0.04 in
Italian Contemporary Art by Gianfranco Pezzot - Sensibility
By Gianfranco Pezzot
Located in Paris, IDF
Digital C-Type print on Kodak Endura photo paper Edition of 6 + 2 AP
Photographic Paper, C Print
Red towel
By Klaus Leidorf
Located in New York, NY
This is an aerial photography that was not manipulated or color corrected.
C Print, Plexiglass
Lost 7
By Klaus Leidorf
Located in New York, NY
Klaus Leidorf was born on June 5th 1956 in Bonn (Germany. After a few years working as research assistant at the University of Marburg and employee at the Bavarian State Office for t...
C Print, Plexiglass
Dreams Over NYC Diamond Dust
By David Drebin
Located in PARIS, FR
Series: Diamond Dust All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 25" X 67"- Edition of 10 Diamond Dust Collection Diamond Dust is a glittering material tha...
Glitter, C Print
Away she flies
By Alice Zilberberg
Located in New York, NY
This project emerged from the realities of struggling with an end of a relationship that was salted dry through infidelity. After a complicated breakup, I found myself on a trip in t...
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Nobody said it was easy
By Alice Zilberberg
Located in New York, NY
This project emerged from the realities of struggling with an end of a relationship that was salted dry through infidelity. After a complicated breakup, I found myself on a trip in t...
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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...
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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
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...
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...
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H 40.16 in W 50.01 in
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...