书名：Robert Polidori: Synchrony an Diachrony: Photographs of the J. P. Getty Museum 1997 / 罗伯特·波利多里：共时性与历时性 1997年盖蒂博物馆摄影作品

作者：Robert Polidori

出版：Steidl, 2018年

装帧：精装，60页

语种：英文

尺寸：29.7*26.7 cm

本书展示了35张盖蒂中心（Getty Center）的照片，这些照片拍摄于1997年由理查德·迈耶（Richard Maier）设计的新多功能综合体开放前不久。为配合该中心成立二十周年而出版，本书揭示了博物馆内部的幕后景象，当时J·保罗·盖蒂（J. Paul Getty）的绘画、雕塑和装饰艺术收藏品正被安置其中。

1997年9月，《纽约客》委托罗伯特·波利多里（Robert Polidori）拍摄迈耶设计的建筑。48小时内，他拍摄了建筑外观的照片，但他记得自己并不满意：“建筑看起来很棒，但它实际上可以容纳任何东西——医院、大学，甚至某些公司总部。”波利多里想要记录博物馆的内部，捕捉他所说的“某种博物馆学的类型学”，于是他开始拍摄那些艺术品刚刚被安装或仍在安装中的房间——雕塑被塑料布覆盖着，金色烛台放在泡沫垫上，装着未露面珍宝的纸箱。拍摄出的照片展示了博物馆成型的过程，揭示了策展的机制，并且用波利多里的话来说，揭示了一个悖论：“一个房间可能越是堆满了待整理的杂乱物品，就越能显露出这些物品摆放的可能性和意图的原始与直白。”

This book presents 35 photos of the Getty Center taken shortly before the 1997 opening of its new multipurpose complex designed by Richard Maier. Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the center, the book reveals behind-the-scenes views of the building as objects from J. Paul Getty’s painting, sculpture and decorative arts collections were being installed inside it.

In September 1997 The New Yorker commissioned Robert Polidori to photograph Maier’s building. Within 48 hours he had made images of its exterior but remembers being unsatisfied: “The building looks great, but it could house anything really—a hospital, a university, or even some corporate headquarters.” Polidori wanted to document the museum’s interior, to capture what he calls “some sort of museological typology,” and proceeded to photograph the rooms in which artworks were either freshly installed or still being so—sculptures under plastic sheets, golden candelabras resting on foam cushions, cardboard boxes containing unseen treasures. The resulting photos show the museum in the process of taking shape, expose the mechanics of curatorship, and reveal, in Polidori’s words, a paradox: “The more a room may be filled with the helter-skelter of objects to be arranged, the more naked and raw the possibilities and intent of their placement become apparent.”