"Hotel Petra, is filled with all kinds of sharp and detailed images that catalog the decay of the space that's happened over the past 18 years...Now demolished, the book ""Hotel Petra,"" is one of the only ways to appreciate the greatness of this hotel and the history it once held.-- ""Musee Magazine"" Polidori's images, some of which stand six feet high, are ravishing mediations on the concepts of transience and decay, the cracked and peeling walls revealing layers of history.--Stephen Wallis ""Wall Street Journal"""