The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
Jun 30 2017
•1h 16m
•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.
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Elsa Dorfman
Self
Errol Morris
Self
Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
W.H. Auden
Self (archive footage)
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