The architectural heritage of the French kings is nowhere as present as in the Loire Valley. Magnificent castles, sophisticated gardens and sweeping parks demonstrate both the monarchs' power and appreciation of art, attracting and fascinating uncounted visitors to this day.

Chateaux of the Loire Valley

Arts & Photography

Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos

Robert Polidori

Architecture

h.f.ullmann

Schlösser im Loiretal

Ullmann

In late September 2005, Robert Polidori traveled to New Orleans to record the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina and by the city's broken levees. He found the streets deserted, and, without electricity, eerily dark. The next day he began to photograph, house by house: "All the places I went in, the doors were just open. They had been opened by what I collectively call Îthe army,' of maybe 20 National Guards from New Hampshire, 15 policemen from Minneapolis, 20 firefighters from New York... On maybe half of them or a third of them that I went in, I think that the occupants had been there prior. And some of them did leave certain funeral-like mementos before they left. Maybe right after the waters receded they had the chance to just--to go back to their place and just see, and realize there's nothing worth saving." Amidst all this, Polidori has found something worth saving, has created mementos for those who could not return, documenting the paradoxically beautiful wreckage. In classical terms, he has found ruins. The abandoned houses he recorded were still waterlogged as he entered and as he learned (by trial and error, a process that including finding a dead body) the language of signs and codes in which rescue workers had spray-painted each house's siding. He sees the resulting photographs as the work of a psychological witness, mapping the lives of the absent and deceased through what remains of their belongings and their homes.

Robert Polidori: After the Flood

Individual Artists

Steidl

Survivors from pre-revolutionary times, American limousines line the streets of Cuba, adding to the Caribbean island's undeniable charm. Havana is the best place of all to admire these classic automobiles. Star photographer Robert Polidori presents a brilliant photographic exhibition of these fascinating relics, some lovingly maintained, some in decay, which do so much to define the street scene of the Cuban capital. Music CD's: Accompanied by original Cuban music - including the stars from Buena Vista Social Club Company Segundo, and Omara Portuodo; The Book summons up mellow memories of glamorous days in old Havana.

Heroes of the Revolution: American Cars And Cuban Beats

Photography & Video

Edel Classics Gmbh

Composta por 69 imagens, trata-se da primeira retrospectiva do fotógrafo canadense Robert Polidori na América Latina. A mostra apresenta seus principais ensaios realizados desde os anos 1980, tais como as séries sobre as cidades ucranianas Pripyat e Chernobyl, 15 anos após o acidente nuclear ocorrido em 1986; Havana; Beirut; New Orleans devastada pelo furacão Katrina, em 2006; e o extenso ensaio sobre as sucessivas restaurações do Palácio de Versailles, ao qual Polidori vem se dedicando há mais de 20 anos. Traz também cenas urbanas de Alexandria (Egito), Varanasi (Índia) e Amman (Jordânia), que enfocam a construção civil e ruas comerciais desses lugares, além de três exemplos do ensaio realizado por Polidori em Nova York, nos anos 1980, quando registrou o interior de apartamentos atacados por vândalos. Nascido em Montreal, Canadá, em 1951, Robert Polidori trata de grandes desastres naturais ou sociais que marcam a história contemporânea e registra cidades, interiores ou fachadas que sofreram alguma espécie de violência ou abandono.

Robert Polidori. Fotografias

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