ROBERT POLIDORI
Biographical Information
1951 Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1980 M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo
1998 Received World Press Award for Art
1999, 2000 Received Alfred Eisenstadt Award for Magazine Photography, Architecture
1998–06 Staff photographer at The New Yorker magazine
Selected Exhibitions
2011 “Pripyat and Chernobyl;” Galerie Camera Work; Berlin, Germany “The Art of Collaboration with Bottega Veneta”
2010 “Robert Polidori:” Camera Work; Berlin, Germany
2008 “Versailles: Etats Transitoires,” Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
2007 “After the Flood;” Jarach Gallery; Venice, Italy “After the Flood;” Nicholas Metivier Gallery; Toronto, Canada
2006 Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York Flowers; London, England Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Martin-Gropius-Bau; Berlin, Germany “The Living is Easy;” Flowers; London, England
2005 Nicholas Metivier Gallery; Toronto, Canada
2004 Peabody Essex Museum; Salem, Massachusetts Weinstein Gallery; Minneapolis, Minnesota CONTACT; Toronto, Canada
2003 Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York Camera Work; Berlin, Germany
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Selected Exhibitions (continued)
2001 Grant Selwyn Fine Art; Los Angeles, California
2000 Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
1999 Weinstein Gallery; Minneapolis, Minnesota Robert Miller Gallery, New York Gallery One; Toronto, Canada “Preview IV;” Weinstein Gallery; Minneapolis, Minnesota
1998 Weinstein Gallery, New York St. Paul Companies; St. Paul, Minnesota
1997 Institut du Monde Arabe; Paris, France Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1994 Conseil Generale de la Nievre; Nevers, France
1991 Galerie Jacques Gordat; Paris, France
1990 Galerie Urbi et Orbi; Paris, France
1989 Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1988 Atelier de Cannettes, Mois de la Photo; Paris, France
1983 Braathen Fine Arts, New York
1982 Braathen Fine Arts, New York
1981 P.S. 1; Long Island City, New York
1980 Braathen-Gallozzi Gallery, New York
1979 CEPA Gallery; Buffalo, New York
1978 International Center of Photography, New York
1975 Whitney Museum of Art—New Filmmakers Program; New York Bykert Gallery, New York
1970–75 Anthology Film Archives, New York
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Publications
After The Flood, Photographs by Robert Polidori. Gottingen, Germany: Editions Steidl, 2006.
Polidori, Robert and Pedersen, Martin C. Robert Polidori’s Metropolis. Photographs by Robert Polidori. New York: Metropolis/D.A.P., 2004.
Zones of Exclusion Pripyat and Chernobyl. Photographs by Robert Polidori. Gottingen, Germany: Editions Steidl, 2003.
Havana. Photographs by Robert Polidori. Gottingen, Germany: Editions Steidl, 2001.
Hess, Alan. Palm Springs Weekend: The Architecture and Design of a Midcentury Oasis. Photographs by Robert Polidori. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001.
Gatier, Pierre-Louis. The Levant: History and Archeology in the Eastern Mediterranean. Photographs by Robert Polidori. Cologne, Germany: Konemann Verlag Gesselschaft, 1999. di Vita, Antonio and Jeanette. La Libye Antique: Cities perdues de L’Empire Romaine. Photographs by Robert Polidori. Paris, France: Editions Menges, 1998.
Preouse de Montclos, Jean-Marie. Chateaux de la Loire. Photographs by Robert Polidori. Paris, France: Editions Menges, 1997. Cologne, Germany: Konemann Verlag Gesselschart, 1997. di Vita, Antonio and Jeanette. Sites Greco-Romaines de la Triploitane et Cyrenaique. Photographs by Robert Polidori. Paris, France: Editions Menges, 1997. Cologne, Germany: Konemann Verlag Gesselschart, 1997.
Perouse de Monclos, Jean-Marie. Versailles. Photographs by Robert Polidori. Paris, France: Editions Menges, 1991. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991. Milano, Italy: Edizione Magnus, 1991. Cologne, Germany: Konemann Verlag Gesselschaft, 1991.
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