The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
The camera is magic
76 mins
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
Andrew Wylie
Self (archive footage)
Victor Bockris
Self (archive footage)
Gail Mazur
Self (archive footage)
Harvey Silverglate
Self (archive footage)
Audre Lorde
Self (archive footage)
Anne Sexton
Self (archive footage)
Peter Orlovsky
Self (archive footage)
Ed Sanders
Self (archive footage)
Robert Fernandez
Executive Producer
Jesse Wann
Co-Producer
Julia Sheehan
Executive Producer
Molly Rokosz
Associate Producer
Sean P. Carroll
Visual Effects
Nick Pavey
Sound Effects Editor
Cameron Steenhagen
Dialogue Editor
Angela Minuty
Line Producer
Eugenia Magann Haynes
Art Direction
Nathan Swingle
Cinematography
Paul Leonard-Morgan
Original Music Composer
Steven Hathaway
Producer
Steven Hathaway
Editor