The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

2017 6.8 (23 votes) 1h 16m

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Documentary

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Fourth Floor Productions
Moxie Pictures

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

The camera is magic

Overview

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.