The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
“The camera is magic”
6.8
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.
Key Crew
Director
Errol Morris
Producers
Steven Hathaway
Music
Paul Leonard-Morgan
Cast (2)
Elsa Dorfman
Self
Errol Morris
Self
