Robert Polidori was born in Montréal in 1951 and lives in New York City. His work has been shown in Paris, Brasilia, New York, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, among other places. A staff photographer of The New Yorker, Polidori has received numerous honors, including a World Press Award for his coverage of the building of the Getty Museum and two Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for his work in Havana and Brasilia. His interest is in cultural evidence expressed through habitat and the notion of rooms as ‘memory theatres’. He captures the vestiges that evoke the essence of each setting and its particular meaning, as framed by economic, historical, geographic, political and social forces. Museum collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York; the L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles and the Bibliotheque National, Paris. His bestselling books Havana, Zones of Exclusion – Pripyat and Chernobyl, After the Flood and Parcours Muséologique Revisité are published by Steidl.
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