Lot 38
ROBERT POLIDORI, R.C.A.
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Provenance:
Private Collection, Toronto
Nicholas Metivier Galery, Toronto
Note:
edition 8 of 10
Montreal-born photographer Robert Polidori’s photographs have been seen by millions in publications such as Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Traveler, Newsweek, Fortune and The New Yorker, where he was a staff photographer for over ten years. He covered the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the days after its landfall in 2005, a direct hit on New Orleans where he lived for a short time as a child. Virtually destroyed, the low-lying areas of the city were captured with his large format camera, the resulting images enduring long after the city emerged from the ruins.
Polidori received the World Press Photo Award in 1997 and was twice granted the Alfred Eisenstadt Award for Magazine Photography (1999, 2000). His works can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Bibliotèque nationale de France (Paris), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Polidori currently lives in New York City.