The B-Side (2016)
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
The camera is magic
76 min
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.
- Release date
- June 30, 2017
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Elsa Dorfman as Self
Crew
- Jorge Luis Borges · Archive footage
- Bob Dylan · Archive footage
- Allen Ginsberg · Archive footage
- Joni Mitchell · Archive footage
- Jonathan Richman · Archive footage
- Errol Morris · Director
- Steven Hathaway · Producer
- Paul Leonard-Morgan · Composer
- Nathan Swingle · Cinematographer
- Nathan Allen Swingle · Cinematographer
- Steven Hathaway · Editor