Backdrop from The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
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The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

2017

The camera is magic

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.

Details

Status
Released
Release date
June 30, 2017
Original language
English
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Director
Errol Morris
Budget
Not recorded
Revenue
Not recorded
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