an old camera
I had a chance to visit the small but delightful "Elsa Dorfman: Me and My Camera" exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston yesterday. It was pretty amazing to see the self-portraits Dorfman created with a 200-pound, 20 x 24 Polaroid camera.
Though many of her portraits are of others, Dorfman’s self-portraiture is integral to her entire practice.
“Being comfortable with the camera on myself affected how I felt in taking pictures of others,” she once said. “I really had in my mind that this was helping me, in some magical way, to take portraits, because people would sense I did it to myself, too.”
credit: Museum of Fine Arts
