Robert Polidori

Quick Facts

Full Name	Robert Polidori
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Feb 10, 1951(1951-02-10)
Age	73
Birthplace	Montreal
Country	Canada
Birth City	Quebec
Horoscope	Aquarius

Robert Polidori Biography

Robert Polidori is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on February 10, 1951 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Robert Polidori was born 1951 in Montreal, Quebec Canada to a French-Canadian mom and a Corsican dad. Polidori’s family immigrated to the United States at age 9 with his father, who was an engineer on Air Force bases and NASA facilities. He was born in Seattle, California, New Orleans and Cocoa Beach and attended his first university in Florida in 1969. Polidori was inspired to pursue filmmaking when he saw Wavelength (1967 film), by Michael Snow during his freshman year. He was then hired by Jonas Mekas, who made him the theatre manager at the Anthology Film Archives. Polidori made four experimental films during this period, which were exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1975. He graduated from State University of New York (Buffalo) in 1980 with a Masters of Arts degree in film.

Polidori took photographs of the New Orleans homes and buildings that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina 2005 and documented its early restoration in 2006. Many of these images were published by Steidl Verlag as After the Flood (2006). They were also displayed at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in “New Orleans After the Flood”, which was a well-attended and popular exhibition. After the Flood exhibitions were also held in New Orleans, London, Venice, Toronto and Toronto. Polidori also continued to document the restoration at Chateau de Versailles. These photographs were published in three volumes of Parcour Museologique Revisite (2009) and included in his retrospective exhibit at the Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal. Polidori returned to Beirut, where he took photographs of the rooms that had been damaged by the famous Hotel Petra. He returned to Beirut in 2010 to photograph the stored art of Yves Saint Laurent (designer) and to Venice to photograph Bottega Veneta’s fall 2011 campaign at Palazzo Papadopoli. Polidori revisited Mumbai and Rio in the years 2011-2015, taking a series tracking shots. These images were displayed as composite panoramic murals at Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York in September 2016. They were also published in Steidl Verlag’s 60 Feet Road companion volume.

The subject of Fotografic Portfolio Edition #41, art director Tom Jacobi described Polidori as “a master of spatial aesthetics, while writer Von Jochen Siemens called him a “cultural detective for places with a story to tell”. In a Domus Italiano review, Beatrice Zamponi wrote, he “trains his lens on the ruins of recent times, on dilapidated surroundings infused with profound aestheticism, turning them into a subtle instrument of social investigation.” At the time of Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal retrospective, curator Paulette Gagnon commented on the beauty of Polidori’s photographs, “the subtle colours and perfect harmony of line and material seem to endow the image with some of the power and appeal of paintings,” as well as their power: “Concerned above all with the human condition, he explains situations – often crisis or disaster – that brings us back to life’s essentials and shatter our complacency.” Described in The Wall Street Journal, as “meditations on the concepts of transience and decay, the cracked and peeling walls revealing layers of history,” Stephen Wallis concluded: “Polidori has never been purely a documentarian. His 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.” At the time of the 2006 Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition New Orleans after the Flood, New York Times journalist Michael Kimmelman noted that Polidori’s images “also express an archaeologist’s aspiration to document plain-spoken truth, and they are without most of the tricks of the trade that photographers exploit to turn victims into objects and pictures of pain into tributes to themselves.” In The New York Review of Books, author John Updike wrote, “it is the wrecked, mildewed interiors that take our eye and quicken our anxiety…. If the discomfort that After the Flood and Aftermath arouse contains an increment of discomfort at the poshness of the volumes and the aura of glamorous selflessness bestowed upon the photographers and their photographic appropriations, the record is indeed enhanced, for posterity to consult, and to use in ways we cannot imagine.”

Since 2015, Polidori and his family live in Ojai, California.

Polidori discovered still photography by editing film frame-by–frame. Frances Yates’ 1982 description of mnemonic systems that required empty rooms to be memorized in The Art of Memory inspired Polidori to purchase a large format camera and photograph abandoned apartments in New York’s Lower East Side. He moved to Paris in 1983 and began documenting the restoration of Chateau De Versailles as a symbol for “society’s superego”. Polidori joined The New Yorker in 1998 as a staff photographer to document Havana’s architectural decay. Steidl Verlag published images from his Cuban series in Havana (2001). Polidori was also interested in inner-city life and “auto-constructed growth”. He photographed the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia’s urban sprawl, Dubai’s construction boom, and the slums in Mumbai. He took photographs of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, as well as Pripyat (Ukraine), in May 2001. These images were published later as Zones of Exclusion: Chernobyl and Pripyat (2003). Polidori was asked to photograph Detroit’s Central Station in 2002 for Metropolis (architecture magazine). Martin C. Pedersen, editor, described Polidori as “a keen observer” of the built environment. The magazine published his urban images later as Robert Polidori’s Metropolis (2005).

Robert Polidori Net Worth

Robert Polidori is one of the richest Photographer from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert Polidori 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Robert Polidori, a Canadian-American photographer was born February 10, 1951. His large-scale color photographs of architecture, urban environments, and interiors are well-known. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal and Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum (Berlin), as well as Instituto Moreira Salles and Sao Paulo. His photographs can also be found in the Museum of Modern Art (New York), New Orleans Museum of Art and J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles, Victoria & Albert Museum London, Chateau de Versailles (Paris), Centre Pompidou, Bibliotheque Natale (Paris), among many other private collections.

Polidori is a “most respected practitioner of large-scale photography.” He has been documenting the restoration of Chateau de Versailles since the 1980s. Polidori has also documented the interiors and architecture of Havana, Rio de Janeiro and Amman’s inner-city areas, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, buildings destroyed by the Chernobyl nuclear accident, and shelled structures at Beirut. Paulette Gagnon, curator of Musee d’art contemporaine de Montreal, described his work in 2009 as a “photographic accounts that invites us share the historical moments they portray, making them part the collective memory.”

In a review of the 2006 “New Orleans after the Flood” exhibition, John Updike described his approach: “Polidori, his work makes clear, loves the grave, delicate, and poignant beauty of architecture when the distracting presence of human inhabitants is eliminated from photographs.” Noting the attendance of “more youthful African-Americans than usually make their way into the Met,” he concluded: “It is for our children and our grandchildren—for the historical record… This is what it looked like; this is what we don’t want to happen again.” This approach was debated within art blogs and criticized for contextual loss when one image was used in a Brazilian non-profit, anti- smoking campaign. At the time of his 2016 New York exhibition, Polidori commented: “Personally I am more attracted to photographs that attempt to be more objective and ’emblematic’ of a subject’s qualities rather than a personal subjective interpretation of phenomena.”

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Top Facts about Robert Polidori

1. Robert Polidori is a Canadian-American photographer born in 1951.
2. He has photographed iconic buildings and cities around the world.
3. Polidori’s work has been exhibited in major museums worldwide.
4. He was awarded the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography in 1999.
5. Polidori’s book “Havana” won the International Center of Photography Infinity Award in 2000.
6. His photographs are known for their large format and high level of detail.
7. Polidori worked as a staff photographer for The New Yorker magazine from 1998 to 2006.
8. He has also worked on commercial projects for clients such as Chanel and Versace.
9. Polidori’s work often explores themes of urban decay and destruction.
10. His photographs have been described as both beautiful and hauntingly surrealistic.