Robert Polidori以其充滿情感，隨著時間逝去或人物轉變而變幻無常的室內攝影，對人類棲息地作心理上的探索。他曾於世界各地拍攝，包括哈瓦那曾風光一時的豪宅殘餘、印度果阿殖民地時代建築、貝魯特記載戰爭痕跡的庭院、切爾諾貝爾核事故後的廢墟、中國及迪拜的城市住宅等等。2006年，他受紐約大都會博物館委託，為新奧爾良受颶風卡特里娜襲擊後的情況作攝影紀錄。
Polidori成為藝術攝影師的職業生涯始於80年代初，當時他得到許可拍攝凡爾賽宮的修復過程。此後，他多次回到宮殿拍下更多相片。在每一作品中，他以房間作為隱喻及記憶存載之概念是顯而易見的。他通過長期暴露於自然光線的方法進行室內攝影，作品的色彩豐富誘人，是以座機長時間等待合適的光線，加上仔細沉思座機角度的成果。Polidori採用寬尺寸的片狀菲林，以創作出高質量的數碼攝影圖片。
Robert Polidori於1998年贏得世界新聞獎，並於1999及2000年獲頒阿爾弗雷德·艾森士塔特雜誌攝影獎。曾出版了11本相集，他的作品珍藏於紐約大都會藝術博物館、紐約現代藝術博物館、倫敦的維多利亞及阿爾伯特博物館，及巴黎的國家圖書館。
Five iconic photographers will exhibit their most memorable works at the Ayala Museum.
Sundaram Tagore Gallery has been named one of the top galleries in the world by Blouin Artinfo and Modern Painters magazine.
While packing the usual stars, including Cartier-Bresson, Burtynsky, Hirst, Liebovitz and Polidori, the show tries also to speak to the Southeast Asian region via an ambitious sound installation by the American Taylor Kuffner.
For decades Singapore has concentrated on developing its reputation as a global financial center, a focus that only recently expanded to include its cultural growth as well.
Gallerist Sundaram Tagore goes behind the camera for his first feature film.
For centuries India has held a grip on the Western imagination. Sundaram Tagore Gallery’s exhibition at this year’s India Art Fair in New Delhi (January 26 to 29) traces the country’s influence on a group of notable photographers.
Award-winning photographer Robert Polidori recently showed his powerful images of the interiors of rooms as altered by the passages of time in Hong Kong for the first time.
Sundaram Tagore Gallery has supported Fine Art Asia since the fair started in 2006. It has branches in Hong Kong, New York and Beverley Hills. The gallery specialises in artwork that interweaves the modern, the cultural and the abstract.
Robert Polidori takes extraordinarily beautiful photographs of interiors that are not, nessarily, beautiful. His images aren't about architecture - what he's interested in is how people take buildings and transform them into habitats.
Internationally renowned for his large-scale photography of ruins and deserted spaces, Robert Polidori likes to recall his defining influence: Frances Yates' The Art of memory, which he came across in 1971.
Why wouldn’t the walls have recorded and layered, one on top of the other, all the emotional vibes of the rooms’ successive occupants and visitors? That is the question that has obsessed photographer Robert Polidori for over twenty years, and that makes his photographs of interiors and exteriors so moving and haunting, long after we have seen them.
Established in 2000 in New York and with branches in Beverly Hills and Hong Kong, Sundaram Tagore Gallery was the first international gallery to open in Hong Kong.
Canadian-born photographer Robert Polidori hasn’t taken a vacation in 25 years. He’s been too busy carting his large-format camera around the world to document the aftermath of events like the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Hurricane Katrina and the Lebanese Civil War.
At the time, Mr. Tagore was one of the first international gallery owners to open a space in the city. Since then several foreign galleries have followed, including Gagosian Gallery and Ben Brown Fine Arts. “Hong Kong has become an important artistic center,” said Mr. Tagore. “There is an audience here that has a voracious appetite for art.”
Why wouldn’t the walls have recorded and layered, one on top of the other, all the emotional vibes of the rooms’ successive occupants and visitors? That is the question that has obsessed photographer Robert Polidori for over twenty years, and that makes his photographs of interiors and exteriors so moving and haunting, long after we have seen them.
Robert Polidori, the token photographer among the savants, insisted that photography was set by physics.
After the great success of the world premiere at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Polidori brings to Venice the touching and paradoxical allure of the devastation left behind in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina.
Robert Polidori's haunting photographs if interiors and buildings reveal the everyday lives left behind in Chernobyl, Havana, New Orleans, and Versailles by Hilarie M. Sheets.
I met Robert Polidori through a photograph he had taken of the Versailles restoration. It captivated me. Seeing so many layers of history in one image was astonishing. So was being spurred to imagine Versailles as a real dwelling defined by the remnants of its inhabitants, and all the changes in history they and it had undergone.
The show concerns the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s ruinous pass over New Orleans on August 29, 2005, as recorded by the distinguished architectural photographer Robert Polidori in four visits between September 2005 and April 2006; it is being attended, to judge from the day this viewer was present, by more youthful African-Americans than usually make their way into the Met.
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Robert Polidori’s astonishing After the Flood at Flowers East is one of the finest sustained series of photographs for years and that very rare thing, a set of pictures in which intellectual doubt and graphical certainty combine to something approaching perfection.
fter Hurricane Katrina, Robert Polidori went to New Orleans, where he lived years ago, to shoot photographs of the devastation for The New Yorker. He stayed longer than first planned, then went back again and again, for weeks, taking hundreds of pictures with a large-format camera that produced wide, superbly detailed color photographs.
Make that two ex-Montrealers. One is Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the
eighth son of a French Canadian pioneer who founded New Orleans in 1718.
The other is Robert Polidori, the New Yorker staff photographer born in Montreal
in 1951, who rushed to the city a year ago this month after Hurricane Katrina
forced half a million people to flee their homes. Le Moyne made plans for a
great city. Polidori gives witness to its demise.
To commemorate the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, ARTINFO has brought back our AI Interview with photographer Robert Polidori, first published in Sept. 2006, on the eve of the opening of his exhibition "New Orleans after the Flood" at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This image is among the large-format chromogenic prints mounted on Plexiglas that were part of Robert Polidori's recent exhibition, and among the many published in a new volume, Zones of Exclusion, Pripyat and Chernobyl (Gottingen, Germany, Steidl, 2003).
