Beirut. Tripoli. Havana. Chernobyl. New Orleans. Rio. Amman. Versailles. Over th
e course of thirty years, Robert Polidori has travelled the world photographing
places with names so familiar we feel we know them already. On the occasion of h
is first museum retrospective in the United States, the artist has selected more
than one hundred photographs for this volume that challenge our preconceptions,
mining both the accoutrement and the psychology of space for what they tell us-
-and for what they withhold--about history, memory, identity, and time. The cata
logue to this exhibition is now published as a book.
