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| Robert Polidori, Canadian (Born 1951)
View of Central Park and Trump Tower from the Time Warner Building, 2003 Looking East, 42nd Street, New York, 2002 Gifts of Timothy C. Hoiles in celebration of the |
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Robert Polidori is one of the world’s preeminent architectural photographers. As a photographer for The New Yorker, Polidori travels worldwide recording contemporary urban landscapes, as well as the remnants of the past. He is represented by several renowned New York galleries, and his dramatic large-scale color photographs have been prominently exhibited in solo shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. In Looking East, Polidori captures the contagious energy of New York. The beautifully saturated hues that define this photograph are the result of Polidori’s attention to natural light. The artist selected just the right time of day in which to make his image, when the sun was low and the light was rapidly transforming this scene. As a result, the viewer will feel that the scene was dramatically different just before and after Polidori’s exposure. Look for Polidori’s spectacular photographs on the Museum’s first floor in the Otto and Marguerite Manley Gallery. These photographs are each approximately four feet tall, and their large scale is one of the distinguishing qualities of much contemporary photography. Photographers now have the technology to print their works on a grand scale that is comparable with that of traditional painting. When you visit the permanent collection galleries and stand before these magnificent photographs, be sure to turn around and glance back to the large painting of Colorado’s Mount Powell by Richard Tallant in the Loo Collection exhibition. In our galleries, Polidori’s majestic landscape photographs compellingly extend the language of landscape art from the frontier paintings of the 19th century to the urban photography of today. |
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