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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

  • Fourth Floor Productions
  • Moxie Pictures

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Elsa Dorfman

Self

Allen Ginsberg

Self (archive footage)

W.H. Auden

Self (archive footage)

Joni Mitchell

Self (archive footage)

Bob Dylan

Self (archive footage)

Andrea Dworkin

Self (archive footage)

Andrew Wylie

Self (archive footage)

Gail Mazur

Self (archive footage)

Harvey Silverglate

Self (archive footage)

Audre Lorde

Self (archive footage)

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