The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (2017)
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.
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.
Elsa Dorfman
Self
Errol Morris
Self
Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
W.H. Auden
Self (archive footage)
Joni Mitchell
Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan
Self (archive footage)
Anaïs Nin
Self (archive footage)
Andrea Dworkin
Self (archive footage)
