The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

Movie

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.

Date: 06/30/2017

Rating: 6.8

Cast: Elsa Dorfman, Errol Morris, Allen Ginsberg, W.H. Auden, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Anaïs Nin, Andrea Dworkin, Andrew Wylie, Victor Bockris, Gail Mazur, Harvey Silverglate, Audre Lorde, Anne Sexton, Peter Orlovsky, Jack Elliott, Ed Sanders

Elsa Dorfman

Errol Morris