Robert Polidori’s artistic career began in the mid-1980s when he started photographing the restoration of the Château de Versailles. He has since documented numerous sites across the world and is considered one of the world’s leading architectural photographers. He creates meticulously detailed, large-scale colour photographs that transcend the limits of pure architectural photography. The high level of detail allows the viewer to delve ever deeper into the places in question and be moved by the atmosphere of the works. He captures his interiors by means of a single long exposure in natural lighting. His tonally rich and seductive photographs are the product of long exposure times and careful contemplation of the angle of view. Polidori uses large-format sheet film, which produces images he believes to be superior to digital photographs.
Robert Polidori was born in 1951 in Montréal, Canada and relocated in the 1970s to New York, where he began working for Jonas Mekas at the Anthology Film Archives. He received his M.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980. Robert Polidori has twice been awarded the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography (1999 and 2000). In 1998 he won the World Press Award for his coverage of the Getty Museum's construction, and in 2007 and 2008 he was selected to receive the Communication Arts awards. Polidori’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Robert Polidori lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.
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Exhibitions
Camera Work, Berlin, Germany
Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, NY, USA
Edwynn Houk Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Museum Schloß Arolsen, Bad Arolsen, Germany
Fontana Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA, USA
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA, USA
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, USA
11 Corso Como, Seoul, South Korea
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Camera Work, Berlin, Germany
Flowers Gallery, London, UK
Arthur Rogers Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA
Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, Brazil
Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Photoszene Festival Köln 2016, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Art 45, Montreal, Canada
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China
UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China
New Orleans Museum of Art NOMA, New Orleans, LA, USA
Danziger Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Camera Work, Berlin, Germany