Robert Polidori

Robert Polidori

Robert Polidori (born Montréal, Québec, 1951) is a photographer known for his architectural studies and frequent contributions to magazines and books.

Biography

Robert Polidori was born in 1951 in Montreal, Canada, to a French Canadian mother and a Corsican father. He moved to the United States when he was ten and arrived in New York in 1969, where he got as job as an assistant to filmmaker Jonas Mekas at the Anthology Film Archives, producing a number of avant-garde films in the early 1970s. In 1980 he received an M.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and subsequently turned his attention to still photography. He has been living in Paris and New York City since 1987. He is listed as a staff photographer with "The New Yorker" magazine and makes frequent contributions to other magazines such as "Vanity Fair".

Works

Polidori's works have been seen in many mediums, from the New Yorker to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a leading artist of human tragedy and suffering. The high level of detail allows the viewer to question things more and more as well as still be touched by the mood of the works. Due to the nature of the modern camera lens, the analytical sense of his images comes from the pre-Renaissance and Renaissance perspectives.citation | title= Robert Polidori| author=Robert Ayers | publisher=ARTINFO | year=2006 | date= September 23, 2006| url=http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/19350/robert-polidori/ | accessdate=2008-04-28 ]

Controversy

While much of Polidori's work is seen as straightforward architectural and urban photography, some of it has aroused controversy in blogs, especially his photographs taken in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A photograph of a dead victim in his own bed is strongly criticized by New Orleans photographer William Greiner. [William Greiner, " [http://fotoarttoo.blogspot.com/2006/09/whats-wrong-with-this-picture.html What’s Wrong With This Picture?] " Greiner's blog, 22 September 2006.] And further controversy arose in both the New Orleans press as well as a number of photo commentary blogs, when a number of his photographs of Katrina devastation were used commercially in an antismoking campaign in Brazil. [" [http://www.canneslionslive.com/outdoor/win.cfm?award=0&page=1&uen=05097&entryID=10646&keywords=NEOGAMA Outdoor Lions Winners 2007] ", describing the ads; " [http://www.galleryhopper.org/archives/2007/06/polidori_katrin.html Polidori Katrina Photos Used in Anti-Smoking Campaign?] " (blog entry); Amy Stein, " [http://amysteinphoto.blogspot.com/2007/06/national-disaster-as-visual-metaphor.html National disaster as visual metaphor] " (blog entry); " [http://photo-muse.blogspot.com/2007/06/robert-polidoris-stop-smokingkatrina.html Robert Polidori's Katrina/Stop Smoking Ads] " (blog entry); " [http://fotoarttoo.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-are-you-smoking.html What Are You Smoking] "(blog entry); " [http://blog.nola.com/dougmaccash/2007/07/robert_polidori_defends_his_po.html Robert Polidori defends his post-K decisions - Times-Picayune] ".]

Awards

Polidori has twice been awarded the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography (1999 and 2002), and won the World Press Award for his coverage of the Getty Museum's construction in 1998.

Books

* "After the Flood" (2006) 333pp
* "Fotografie: Portfolio" (2006)
* "Metropolis" (2005) 128pp
* "Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl" (2003) 112pp
* "Havana" (2001) 160pp
* "Palm Springs Weekend: The Architecture and Design of a Midcentury Oasis" (2001)
* "The Levant: History and Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean" by Pierre-Louis Gatier, Robert-Louis Gatier, Eric Gubel, and Philippe Marquis (2000)
* "Libya: The Lost Cities of the Roman Empire" by Antonio Di Vita, Ginette Divita-Evrard, Lidiano Bacchielli, and Robert Polidori (1999)
* "Chateaux of the Loire Valley" by Jean-Marie Perouse De Montclos and Robert Polidori (1997)
* "Sites Greco-Romaines de la Triploitane et Cyrenaique" (1997)
* "Versailles" by Robert Polidori and Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos (1991)

olo public exhibitions

Polidori's photographs have been shown in galleries across the world,Dubious|date=March 2008 including the Edwynn Houk, Pace/McGill and Robert Miller Galleries in New York City, Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, Flowers-East in London, several in Paris, and many others.Fact|date=October 2007

Notes

External links

* [http://www.flowerseast.com/FE/Artists_Originals.asp?Artist=POLIDORI Gallery Web Site]


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