Elena Dorfman
{{short description|American fine art photographer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| name = Elena Dorfman
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| birth_date = 1965
| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S
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| alma_mater = Sarah Lawrence College
| occupation = Photographer
| known_for = Portrait series
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Elena Dorfman (born 1965) is an American fine art photographer based in Los Angeles, California.{{Cite web |last=Dorfman |first=Elena |title=About |url=https://www.elenadorfman.com/about |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=Elena Dorfman |language=en-US}} Her photographs have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, T, and W.
Dorfman is known for her work centering around landscapes and identity through photography and film.{{Cite web |title=Art in Embassies |url=https://art.state.gov/personnel/elena_dorfman/ |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=Art in Embassies, US Department of State |language=en}} Her work is held in collections including the Cincinnati Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Bass Art Museum, Newcomb Art Museum, Palm Springs Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.{{Cite web |title=Elena Dorfman Semifinalist|url=https://printcenter.org/94th/dorfman/ |access-date=2024-09-16 |work=The Print Center 94th Annual |language=en-US}}
Career
Dorfman received a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College, in 1988.[https://mcam.mills.edu/press/press_releases/2016-17/Elena-Dorfman-Press-Release.pdf Mills College website, Press Release dated October 26, 2016] Her photography series explores cultural tensions between the artificial and natural, animals and people, as well as fantasy and reality.{{Cite web |title=Modernism Artists: Elena Dorfman |url=https://www.modernisminc.com/artists/Elena_DORFMAN/ |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=Modernism Art Gallery and Publisher |language=en}} Known for research-led works in photography, film, and most recently tapestry, she conducts extensive field studies that have inspired series including Valbona,[https://www.robischongallery.com/artist/ELENA_DORFMAN/works/6621 Robischon Gallery, Elena Dorfman works] Sublime: The LA River,[https://www.cincinnatiarts.org/weston-art-gallery/exhibitions/detail/elena-dorfman-sublime-the-l-a-river Cincinnati Arts website, Elena Dorfman, Sublime: The L.A. River] Empire Falling,[https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/elena-dorfman-empire-falling/ The Eye of Photography website, Elena Dorfman: - Empire Falling] The Pleasure Park,{{Cite web |title=The Pleasure Park |url=https://www.21cmuseumhotels.com/museum/exhibit/the-pleasure-park/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916201343/https://www.21cmuseumhotels.com/museum/exhibit/the-pleasure-park/ |archive-date=2024-09-16 |access-date=2024-09-16 |work=Museum Hotel |language=en-US}} Fandomania: Characters & Cosplay, and Still Lovers.{{Cite web |last=Morgan |first=Susan |date=2005-11-01 |title=Elena Dorfman: Still Lovers |url=https://archive.aperture.org/article/2005/4/4/elena-dorfman-still-lovers |access-date=2024-09-16 |work=Aperture Archive |language=en-US}}
Dorfman has been represented by the Edwynn Houk Gallery,[http://www.houkgallery.com/dorfman-stilllovers/dorfman1.html Edwynn Houk Gallery] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208171408/http://www.houkgallery.com/dorfman-stilllovers/dorfman1.html|date=December 8, 2006}} Robischon Gallery,{{Cite web |title=Artists |url=https://www.robischongallery.com/artists |access-date=21 October 2024 |website=Robischon Gallery}} Modernism,{{Cite web |title=Artists : Elena DORFMAN |url=https://www.modernisminc.com/artists/Elena_DORFMAN/ |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=www.modernisminc.com}} and Frederic Snitzer Gallery.{{Cite web |title=Dorfman Elena {{!}} My Art Guides |url=https://myartguides.com/people/dorfman-elena/ |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=My Art Guides {{!}} Your Compass in the Art World |language=en-US}}
Her work is the subject of three monographs: Empire Falling (Damiani, 2013), Fandomania (Aperture, 2007), and Still Lovers (Channel, 2005). Dorfman's work from Still Lovers was the focus of several documentary films and the inspiration for the feature film, Lars and the Real Girl.[https://printcenter.org/94th/dorfman/ Print Center website, Elena Dorfman] In 2022, the U.S. Embassy in Tirana, Albania, supported her research and restoration work in the National Film Archives to create 'Fragments', a single-channel film installation.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
= Exhibitions =
- 2001: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, CA.{{Cite web |title=Dorfman, Elena |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Elena_Dorfman/ |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=SFMOMA |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=The Print Center – The Print Center 94th ANNUAL International Competition |url=https://printcenter.org/94th/ |access-date=2024-10-21 |language=en-US}}
- April 12 - May 19, 2007: Edwynn Houk Gallery New York, NY.{{Cite web |date=April 2007 |title=Elena Dorfman Fandomania |url=https://www.houkgallery.com/usr/documents/exhibitions/press_release_url/49/dorfman_pr_april2007.pdf |publisher=EDWYNN HOUK GALLERY}}
- 2019: Fondazione Prada. Milan, Italy.{{Cite web |last=Eckardt |first=Steph |date=2019-03-31 |title=What It Looks Like When a Sex Doll Joins a Family |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/gallery/elena-dorfman-jamie-diamond-sex-doll-exhibit-prada-foundation |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=W Magazine |language=en}}
- 2019: Newcomb Art Museum. New Orleans, LA.{{Cite web |last=Submission |first=NOLA Community |date=2016-06-29 |title=Syrian teen refugees inspire 1 new exhibit at Newcomb Art Museum |url=https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/arts/syrian-teen-refugees-inspire-1-new-exhibit-at-newcomb-art-museum/article_741b1880-a774-56b9-9b0a-f9f7f742ac86.html |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=NOLA.com |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.elenadorfman.com Elena Dorfman's website]
- [https://www.artnet.com/artists/elena-dorfman/ Artnet: Elena Dorfman]
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Category:American women photographers
Category:Sarah Lawrence College alumni
Category:American fine art photographers
Category:21st-century American women
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