The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

06/30/2017

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1hr 16min

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Documentary

The camera is magic

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Elsa Dorfman
  • Errol Morris
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • W.H. Auden
  • Joni Mitchell

    Directors

  • Jesse Wann
  • Errol Morris

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Moxie Pictures
  • Fourth Floor Productions

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

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