The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

Release Date: 2017-06-30

Runtime: 76

Languages: English

Rating: 6.8

Votes: 23

Genres: Documentary

Director: Errol Morris

Description: 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 studi...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.Read More

Production Companies:

Fourth Floor Productions

Moxie Pictures