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

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

2017-06-30 - 76 minutes

6.80 / 10

Overview

The camera is magic

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.

Screenplay

Executive Producer - Robert Fernandez

Genres

Documentary

Videos

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Por

Trailer

NYFF Soft Focus: Errol Morris

Featurette

Images

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Cast

Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Self (archive footage)

W.H. Auden

W.H. Auden

Self (archive footage)

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

Self (archive footage)

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Self (archive footage)

Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

Self (archive footage)

Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin

Self (archive footage)

Andrew Wylie

Andrew Wylie

Self (archive footage)

Victor Bockris

Victor Bockris

Self (archive footage)

Gail Mazur

Gail Mazur

Self (archive footage)

Harvey Silverglate

Harvey Silverglate

Self (archive footage)

Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

Self (archive footage)

Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

Self (archive footage)

Peter Orlovsky

Peter Orlovsky

Self (archive footage)

Jack Elliott

Jack Elliott

Self (archive footage)

Ed Sanders

Ed Sanders

Self (archive footage)