The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (2016)

  • NR
  • 10/09/2016 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 16m

The camera is magic

Overview

Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years, she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.

Errol Morris

Director

Cast

Elsa Dorfman's headshot

Elsa Dorfman

Self
Errol Morris's headshot

Errol Morris

Self
Allen Ginsberg's headshot

Allen Ginsberg

Self (archive footage)
W.H. Auden's headshot

W.H. Auden

Self (archive footage)
Joni Mitchell's headshot

Joni Mitchell

Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan's headshot

Bob Dylan

Self (archive footage)
Anaïs Nin's headshot

Anaïs Nin

Self (archive footage)
Andrea Dworkin's headshot

Andrea Dworkin

Self (archive footage)

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