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Robert Polidori shoots 'habitat'
by Euan Kerr, Minnesota Public Radio
June 4, 2004

'Amman, Jordan, No. 1, 1996' Robert Polidori says he doesn't do architectural photography, he likes to make pictures of habitats. (Image courtesy Robert Polidori)

Robert Polidori's pictures appear in Vanity Fair, Fortune, and the New Yorker where he's a staff photographer. His images are smart, sumptuous and sexy, and his subjects are almost exclusively buildings.

Minneapolis, Minn — The photos in the magazines are usually quite small, but remarkable in their detail and composition. Polidori uses a large format camera, so those same pictures can be easily enlarged to cover entire walls. The Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis is currently showing an exhibition of recent Polidori work. It includes shots of busy New York Streets, and hidden treasures, such as the inside of the Steinway piano factory in Brooklyn, and the bowling alley which was the original home of the Frick Library.

Robert Polidori took Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr around the show and described how he got many of the shots.

Robert Polidori's photographs are on show at the Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis through early July.

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