Born in Montreal, Canada in 1951, Robert Polidori arrived in New York in 1969 and got a job as a director’s assistant at the Anthology Film Archives, producing avant-garde films in the early 1970s. He later dedicated himself to still-life photography and his work has been seen in numerous publications, including The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. His uses a large-format, custom-made Kipp Wettstein camera adapted to aerial photography in order to create analytic images of cities and architecture that are so rich in detail that they seem to be Renaissance architectural drawings. Famous his controversial series dedicated to hurricane Katrina, as well as that on the interiors of the Versailles Palace during recent restoration work.

Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
through 27 February