The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography 2017

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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 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.

  • Released: 2017-06-02
  • Runtime: 76 minutes
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Stars: Errol Morris, Allen Ginsberg, W.H. Auden, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Anaïs Nin, Audre Lorde, Peter Orlovsky, Elsa Dorfman, Andrea Dworkin, Andrew Wylie, Victor Bockris, Gail Mazur, Harvey Silverglate, Jack Elliott, Ed Sanders
  • Director: Errol Morris