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Passing: Elsa Dorfman, Famous For Her Giant Polaroids, Dies At 83

By David Schonauer   Wednesday June 3, 2020

Elsa Dorfman, a Cambridge, Massachussetts, fixture known large-scale Polaroid portraits, died on May 30 of complications from kidney failure, notes WGBH. She was 83. Dorfman’s portraits, made with a Polaroid 20x24 camera, featured regular people wearing everyday clothing, always in front of a plain white matte background. Dorfman said when …

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