Elsa’s CV

anyhow, I just dont have the kind of cv most people have.
i’ve been busy for sure
but in getting things to add up
oh well
wikipedia isnt up to date either.
eghad
but i have endured.

working since 1965 w/ analog cameras
Nikon, Hasselblad, Pentax,
Mamiya bought in Japan by Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen
black and white film
my darkrooom in my Cambridge Street bedroom
in 1980 polaroid 20×24 COLOR
a miracle.

followed the 20×24 from Polaroid Ames St. East Cambridge loft
Polaroid Memorial Drive corporate space to Museum of Fine
Arts to Museum School.
Eventually in 1987 20×24 camera #4 released from hotel in Japan.
got studio at 955 Mass Ave.
Started framing in backyard garage.
Small Corp uv sleek plexi boxes. Greenfield, MA

in 1972 was a Radcliffe Fellow, a program for women
conceived by Mrs. Mary Ingraham Bunting, President of Radcliffe.
no longer exists in her inspired form.

in 2010 helped save analog original polaroid 20×24 film w/
friends Dan Stern and John Reuter. And Polaroid alums.

from 1958 to 1977 had a miscellany of freelance jobs
even was fifth grade school teacher in Concord, MA.
worked always w/ amazing people: Eleanor Duckworth, Lynn Margulis,David Webster, Harriet Gibney, George Cope, Ruth Kreplick,
Eelco Wolf. Adeline Naiman. Richard Seaver. Barney Rosset.

1976 married Harvey Silverglate; in 1977 son Isaac Dorfman
Silverglate was born; in 2011 Sarah Morales Silverglate. Annette
Morales wife/mother.

lived in Cambridge since 1962. In Riverside section since
1968.

published four books, including HIS IDEA with Robert Creeley
no one can find it.

1996 published my website, elsa.photo.net under aegis of friend
Philip Greenspun. It was pretty early in website history.

in 2002 unveiled Boston subway map reinterpreted as website guide,
collaboration w/ Andrew Grumet.

in 2010 site morphed into elsadorfman.com

and in april will be 75
hope to be still clicking.
and still standing.

607 Franklin Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
voice: 617/876-6416
fax: 617/492-4925
email: elsad@comcast.net
URL: elsadorfman.com
born: Cambridge, Massachusetts 1937
Education: B.A. Tufts College 1959 (cum laude, French Literature)
M. Ed. Boston College (elementary education)

Publications

Elsa’s Housebook – A Woman’s Photojournal , Godine, 1974
No Hair Day , 2003

Selected American Collections

Boston Public Library
Colby College Museum
Davis Museum of Art, Wellesley College
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Fogg Museum, Harvard University
Healey Library, UMASS/Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
Princeton University Graphic Arts Collection
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
University Art Museum, Berkeley, California

Selected Individual Exhibitions

1998 “Self-Portraits, 1973-1997” ; Gallery NAGA, Boston
1995 “Eight Portraits” , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1994 “Forty Ways to Fight the Fight Against AIDS”, Courtland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown (traveling)
1987 “These People Live in the 1980s”, Museum of Art, Aarhus, DM
1985 “Myself and Other Women”, Image Gallery, Aarhus, DM
1983 “Twenty-Nine American Women”, Yuen Lui Gallery, Seattle
1977 “Impressions of Women”, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
1975 “Portraits of Women”, York University, Toronto, Canada
1973 “Women”, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
1972 “Allen Ginsberg”, Focus II Gallery, New York City

Selected Group Exhibitions

2000 DeCordova Museum , Lincoln, Massachusetts
1998 DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
1997 Fogg Art Museum , Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1994 “Portraits”, Fuller Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
1993 “Portraits”, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
1993 “His People, Her People, Their People”, Boston Center For the Arts
1993 “Opening Exhibit”, Davis Museum of Art, Wellesley College
1992 “Women Photographers”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1991 “Contemporary Photographers”, Fogg Museum
1990 “Figuring the Body”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1990 “Elsa Dorfman and Allen Ginsberg”, FotoFest, Houston,Texas
1985 “Aktfoto”, Munich Art Museum, Munich, DM
1984 “Contemporary American Portraits”, University of New Mexico
1983 “Boston Now”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
1981 “Portraits of Men”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachuetts
1978 “New England Photographers”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1975 “Women of Photography – An Historical Survey”, San Francisco Museum of Art