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.
Cast: Elsa Dorfman, Errol Morris
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
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.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Errol Morris
- Producers
- Robert Fernandez, Julia Sheehan, Steven Hathaway
- Cast
- Elsa Dorfman, Errol Morris
- Studio
- Fourth Floor Productions, Moxie Pictures
Maturity rating
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Audio languages
English
