Elsa Dorfman polaroid portraits

[jtk]

https://www.amazon.com/B-Side-Elsa-Dorfmans-Portrait-Photography/dp/B075NTGTLM

You can find a perceptive video and ramble by her online (I used Amazon Firestick).

She was famed for 20X24 and even 40X60 Polaroids...

 

[CMoore]

Wow...this seems like something i would find very interesting.
She seems like a fabulous person....what a great story she is.!
I did not realize Polaroid made custom film like that...that big... 20 x24.?
This blows me away.......

 

[jtk]

Polaroid made MUCH BIGGER film ...40X80...which was also used by Elsa Dorfman...

...here in NM Patrick Nagatani used the 20X24 and, as part of his work, photographed Ray Graham, my former neighbor...he also used it to produce two major projects, mentioned here: http://artmuseum.unm.edu/past-exhibitions/patrick-nagatani-a-survey-of-early-photographs/

 

[Oren Grad]

http://www.elsadorfman.com/

 

[jtk]

Elsa Dorfman can be seen in several Youtubes ( )

I first saw Errol Morris video "B-Side" on TV via Amazon's Fire Stick system. She speaks extensively about her approach to portraiture..

 

[jtk]

More from Elsa Dorfman : http://www.elsadorfman.com/categories/1-portraits/albums/34-how-i-work-what-i-charge

Oren Grad, thanks for her link.

 

[Oren Grad]

Also a good overview:

http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/09/elsa-dorfmans-portrait-photography