It takes a particular sensibility, in the midst of a humanitarian crisis, to focus on inanimate objects. "No ideas but in things," the poet William Carlos Wiliams wrote, and it is part of Robert Polidori's working method to let mute walls bear witness. Polidori is best known as an architectural photographer, but his true interests lie at the limits of the habitable world, where disaster and human failures combine to create places nearly lost to history. Two current exhibitions of his large-format color pictures testify to his fascination with space as an expression of psychology, and with ruins as vectors of emotional upheaval... More >>>