The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

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USA, 2016, 76 min

Directed by:

Errol Morris

Cinematography:

Nathan Allen Swingle
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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 Cambridge, Massachusetts 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. (Mongrel Media)

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