The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

2016·United States·76 min.
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
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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 Cambridge, Massachusetts 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.

DirectorErrol Morris
CinematographyNathan Swingle
Original titleThe B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography