The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

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Jun 30, 17 Documentary

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.

Dialogue Editor
Cameron Steenhagen
Visual Effects
Sean P. Carroll
Art Direction
Eugenia Magann Haynes
Line Producer
Angela Minuty
Supervising Sound Editor
Joel Dougherty

Top Billed Cast

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)

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