Beirut. Tripoli. Havana. Chernobyl. New Orleans. Rio. Amman. Versailles. Over the 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 his 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 catalogue to this exhibition is now published as a book.

Robert Polidori was born in Montréal in 1951 and lives in New York City. His work has been the subject of exhibitions in New York, London, Brazil, Montreal, among other places. He received the World Press Photo Award in 1997, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography in 1999 and 2000, and Communication Arts awards in 2007 and 2008. In 2006, Polidori's series of photographs of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His bestselling books Havana (2003), Zones of Exclusion-Pripyat and Chernobyl (2003), After the Flood (2006), Parcours Muséologique Revisité (2009) and Some Points in Between...Up Till Now (2010) are published by Steidl. Selected Works is published on the occasion of his first career retrospective in the United States, exhibited at the Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College.