Robert Polidori

Robert Polidori ( born February 10, 1951 in Montreal ) is a Canadian architectural photographer and photojournalist.

  • 5.1 Pictorials
  • 5.2 secondary literature
  • 6.1 Notes and references

Life

Robert Polidori is the son of originating from Corsica missile developer. In his youth he moved with his parents to Canada and the United States. He studied art at Antioch College in Yellow Springs (Ohio ). In 1969 he moved to New York and decided to make films. It created four experimental works that were shown in workshops. To earn money, he became a self-taught photographer and had success. Send travel and architecture magazines him for photo coverage in all parts of the world, he photographed for them, for example, hotel building in Dubai or Shanghai. Polidori's images achieve - including at Sotheby 's - high prices and his picture books have received awards. His photographs have been exhibited in many cities in America and Europe and regularly published in magazines such as in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Geo. Polidori lives in New York and Paris.

Photographic work

Caused a stir Polidori's images of Chernobyl and Pripyat. He visited with protective clothing and face masks in May 2001, the fenced exclusion zone, which was built within a radius of 30 kilometers around these two evacuated cities after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and photographed, among others, the looted rooms of schools and hospitals, the control room of the " IV block " of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (which he was allowed to enter only for a few minutes ) and ships rusting in the contaminated river Pripyat and rescue vehicles that were provided because of their contamination with a lead sheath. About this in his book restricted zones - Pripyat and Chernobyl published photographs the FAZ: " Polidori's images show a reality that is beyond our imagination. From them the panic of sudden awakening speaks like the idea of relentless eternity. This still life of Secrets breathe the deadly calm of a boundless solitude " Ludwig Fels ruled in TIME about the recording: ". These are images of a seemingly everlasting solidification and crusting, silent, quiet, oppressive. A city after an earthquake devastated looking than the homely translucent from outside ruins Pripyat, where the decay takes place in slow motion. The compelling of these images lies in the inimitable accuracy and depth of motives - in their non- persisting on pathos aesthetics ".

Polidori made ​​even after the Katrina flood in New Orleans in many exhibitions noticed a photo series that was published in 2006 in the image band After the flood. In these pictures, no people are seen; New Orleans is like a ghost town. The houses are destroyed, the rooms are dirty from the mud furniture overturned wildly. The photographer says Hubert Spiegel, had " chosen the trauma of loss on the topic. The fact that the disaster just as all desire for eternity demands, that's the weird message in these images, which tell of the end of terror from its continuance. " Controversy has been discussed that some pictures of his Katrina - Series in Brazil commercially in an anti- - smoking campaign were used.

Polidori photographed buildings and places he sees them, with all its contradictions, for example, if he takes up the deserted colorful house facades in Havana, the former summer residence of former Romanian dictator Ceausescu or the extensive restoration work on the Palace of Versailles. His images seem subversive. He reveals in his own way the arrogance of some buildings that have been created by great architects such as Axel Schultes or Le Corbusier or denounces the lack of conscience of modernity: "How threatening stalagmites grow Shanghai towers of glass and concrete on the decaying remains of the old city, the movement of the population in the slums as Polidori has captured the rush of fugitives. " for him houses" animated monuments, devised by man for man, and thus places that tell us about people. "

Quote

  • "If I point the camera at something that is to provide such a question. And the picture that emerges is as a response. I realized after some time that you, the longer you look at a picture the more see what you did not notice at first glance. This win is such a thing as knowledge dividend of a photo. "

Awards and Exhibitions

Awards and prizes

  • 2006/2007: German Photo Book Prize (Category photo picture book for " After the Flood " )
  • 2002: Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography
  • 1999: Alfred Eisenstaedt Award
  • 1998: World Press Photo Award

Solo exhibitions (selection )

  • 2012: Camera Work Gallery Contemporary CWC, August (Berlin )
  • 2006: Martin -Gropius -Bau, Berlin
  • 2006: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • 2005: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (Massachusetts )
  • 1998: Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

Group exhibitions ( selection)

  • 2010: Flowers, London, Great Britain
  • 2007: Cook Fine Art, New York ( USA)
  • 2006: Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto ( Canada )
  • 2006: CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona ( Spain)
  • 2003: Camera Work Gallery, Berlin
Architectural photography Yellow Springs, Ohio Vanity Fair (magazine) Die Zeit Deutscher Fotobuchpreis Salem (Massachusetts) Arab World Institute De Appel Berliner Festspiele Integrated Authority File
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