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Robert Polidori Photography

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.

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Artist: Robert Polidori
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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1980s Contemporary Robert Polidori Photography

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C Print

The Kremlin, Moscow Russia
By Robert Polidori
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Robert Polidori's ongoing Russia series
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2010s Contemporary Robert Polidori Photography

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Archival Pigment

Enfilade Bleu, Chateau Versailles
By Robert Polidori
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From Polidori's ongoing Versailles series, started in 1985
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2010s Contemporary Robert Polidori Photography

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Archival Pigment

Château de Versailles, France
By Robert Polidori
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Robert Polidori, ongoing Versailles series
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2010s Contemporary Robert Polidori Photography

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Archival Pigment

Salles du XVII, Château de Versailles, France
By Robert Polidori
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Robert Polidori, ongoing Versailles series
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2010s Contemporary Robert Polidori Photography

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Archival Pigment

Kuwait Stock Exchange
By Robert Polidori
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Robert Polidori, ongoing stock exchange series
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2010s Contemporary Robert Polidori Photography

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Archival Pigment

Salles du XVII, Aile du Nord- 1er étage, Château de Versailles, France
By Robert Polidori
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Robert Polidori, ongoing Versailles series
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2010s Contemporary Robert Polidori Photography

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Archival Pigment

Enfilade 2 Salles du XVII
By Robert Polidori
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Versailles series. Edition 5/10. Pigment print. A signed label is shipped once sold.
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2010s Contemporary Robert Polidori Photography

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Archival Pigment

Versailles Verde
By Robert Polidori
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Versailles series
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2010s Contemporary Robert Polidori Photography

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Archival Pigment

House of Amelia Pelaez, Estrada Palma 261, Vibora, Cuba
By Robert Polidori
Located in Miami Beach, FL
pigment print, diasec
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2010s Contemporary Robert Polidori Photography

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Pigment

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Studio Shoes (Triptych)
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Khamsa III (Moria)
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Located in New York, NY
Khamsa III (Moria), 2016 Digital c print 14" x 11 inches Edition of 50 Set of 3 available for $1250 This image is of a (k)hamsa made with life jacket swatches and emergency blankets from the island of Lesvos, created by tracing the hand of a refugee child and drawing their eyes inside of it. It is installed in the barbed wire near the port of Mytilini. The human condition is the driving motivation behind my work, it’s triumphs, failures, and banality are inexhaustible source material. Using community as a platform for creation, the work is a collaboration with the subjects - as models, fixers, craftsmen, historians, designers - the people who are being described are those who guide the visual narrative. Together, we make work. Aubrey Roemer was born in Rochester, NY. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute and post collegiately attended residencies in the USA, Europe, and Asia, as well as exhibited in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally. She worked as a journalist for Art Observed, specializing in covering the NYC auction season. Roemer has received grants from World Connect and ARTwerk for her work. She has received national and international press for her work, while actively speaking about the role of art and activism, notably with Artshape Mammoth, the Tällberg Foundation, and at the Parrish Museum of Art. Recently, she was a resident at Vermont Studio Center, at 42 Acres in England, and in Taiwan at Kio-a-Thau Sugar Refinery Artist Village. Roemer is working on projects in Nicaragua with La Isla Foundation addressing the CKDnT epidemic among sugarcane workers...
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Khamsa II (Yasamine)
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Delos Column #5
By Lee Wells
Located in New York, NY
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2010s Contemporary Robert Polidori Photography

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Rue De Verneuil, Woman with Handbag, Paris, France, 1997
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition 3 of 25 After 30 years on West 11th Street, The Robin Rice Gallery celebrates its first ever exhibition for Robin...
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Small Aegean Sea Island, Cyclades
By Leandros Pigades
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The Race Across Crystal Beach
By Leandros Pigades
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Ancient Goddess at Delos
By Lee Wells
Located in New York, NY
Ancient Goddess at Delos, 2014 Chromogenic lambda print 20 x 30 inches Edition of 10
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Delos Column #4
By Lee Wells
Located in New York, NY
Delos Column #4, 2014 Chromogenic lambda print Edition of 10 30 x 20 inches Where light was born. It’s a UNESCO world heritage site. It’s an ark of history, floating lazily on the w...
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Tulips and Bleeding Hearts in a Japanese Vase
By T.M. Glass
Located in Montreal, Quebec
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Orlando
By Patricia McDonough
Located in Hudson, NY
Price for UNFRAMED item The Robin Rice Gallery proudly announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2018, an annual photography exhibit featuring gallery artists as well as a few newcomers. This year’s opening reception will be held on Wednesday, June 27th from 6 – 8 PM, and the show will be on view until September 23rd, 2018 Rice has brought together the works of 55 gallery artists and nearly a hundred photographs for this salon-style exhibition. From floor to ceiling, the walls of the gallery are a mosaic of various size photographs in sepia, color and black & white, expertly hung to fit together like pieces of a puzzle. “This is my favorite exhibition even though it takes months to curate and a week to install,” says Rice. “I love the moment when a viewer is first drawn to an image. Sometimes in’s indefinable; a moment when the viewer not only shares but reconnects to an experience remembered.” Each year, the Summertime Salon matures and Rice’s annual masterpiece is revealed to showcase an exhibition stronger than the year before. Rice has a close relationship with the works of her photographers, and strategically curates the show to best exemplify the artists’ strengths, remaining cohesively linked by Rice’s aesthetic. This year’s invitational image, Hoop and Ball by Nenad Samuilo Amodaj is from a series of one hundred photographs. Rice chose three photographs from Amodaj’s series to create a triptych on the back wall of her gallery for this exhibition. The invitational image is of a standing semi-nude woman in profile wearing a hoop skirt. Her entire head rests inside of a large white plaster ball that she holds above her. He explained: “I wanted to explore the abstract architectural properties of the hoop skirt, a clothing item with curious geometric form that appears both in nature and in the world of artifice.” Before photographing the model he created numerous figure drawings that helped solidify his vision for the series. Male nude...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Robert Polidori Photography

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Previously Available Items
Cabinet Interieur de Mme Adelaide #2, Corps Central - RdC, Versailles, France
By Robert Polidori
Located in Miami Beach, FL
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Contemporary Robert Polidori Photography

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Palm Court Inn, Highway 111
By Robert Polidori
Located in Palm Desert, CA
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Find a wide variety of authentic Robert Polidori photography available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Robert Polidori in pigment print, archival pigment print, c print and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Robert Polidori photography, so small editions measuring 45 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Charles Petillon , Cecilia Paredes, and Liz Nielsen. Robert Polidori photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $3,380 and tops out at $30,000, while the average work can sell for $20,000.

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