poster

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

68% | Jun 02, 2017 | Documentary

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.

Featured Crew

Errol Morris
Director
Paul Leonard-Morgan
Music

Cast

actor1
Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
actor1
W.H. Auden
Self (archive footage)
actor1
Joni Mitchell
Self (archival footage)

Images