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Robert Polidori is known for his large format photographs of
habitats and rooms saturated with the traces of human intervention.
In EYE and I, he turns the lens around to reveal the portraits of
people he has encountered in his work of over thirty years
photographing around the world, particularly in the Middle East and
India. These instantaneous portraits of mutual recognition reveal
the photographed subject and the photographer intersecting with
each other in a fleeting gaze of mutual regard. Robert Polidori was
born in Montreal in 1951 and lives in New York City. His work has
been the subject of exhibitions in New York, London, Brazil,
Montreal, among other places. He received the World Press Photo
Award in 1997, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine
Photography in 1999 and 2000, and Communication Arts awards in 2007
and 2008. In 2006, Polidori's series of photographs of New Orleans
after Hurricane Katrina was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. His bestselling books Havana (2003), Zones of
Exclusion-Pripyat and Chernobyl (2003), After the Flood (2006),
Parcours Museologique Revisite (2009) and Some Points in Between...
Up Till Now (2010) are published by Steidl.
Following the reopening of 30 Avenue Montaigne in 2022, this
exquisite volume offers a unique look into the metamorphosis of the
House of Dior s legendary Parisian headquarters via images captured
by acclaimed photographer Robert Polidori. or over two years, the
iconic hotel particulier underwent a radical transformation, during
which Polidori was granted exclusive access to the site for the
entire duration of the restoration documenting the original state,
the demolition phase, and the reconstruction of Dior s couture
house. Registering the past, present, and future of the spaces
within a single frame, Polidori s images capture layers of history
in extraordinary detail. Enriched with archival documents, his
impressive iconography offers an extraordinary visual experience
recorded in one of the nest pieces of bookmaking, beautifully
printed on luxurious European papers.
"Transitional States" is Robert Polidori's attempt to visually
portray aspects of historical revisionism as seen through various
stages of the restoration of the Palace of Versailles. What does it
really mean to restore a room? Is it about the precise duplication
of something which is now showing the wear and tear of its age, to
renew it and make it again as it once was? Or does it involve
entirely redefining the rooms epidermis to a completely different
state, a state that it may once have had in an earlier epoch? The
curatorial decisions that control this process reflect a political
will and esthetic tastes which have altered over the period of the
restoration. Photographed over a period of 25 years, the transient
and temporary situations which the labors of these restorations
afford, present temporal paradoxes that engage layers of history
and power.
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