The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

76 mins | Documentary | June 2, 2017

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.

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

76 mins | Documentary | June 2, 2017

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Moxie Pictures, Fourth Floor Productions
Original title The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
Directors Errol Morris
Writers

Cast

Elsa Dorfman

as Self

Errol Morris

as Self

Allen Ginsberg

as Self (archive footage)

W.H. Auden

as Self (archive footage)

Joni Mitchell

as Self (archival footage)

Bob Dylan

as Self (archival footage)

Anaïs Nin

as Self (archival footage)

Andrea Dworkin

as Self (archival footage)

Andrew Wylie

as Self (archival footage)

Victor Bockris

as Self (archival footage)

Gail Mazur

as Self (archival footage)

Harvey Silverglate

as Self (archival footage)

Ed Sanders

as Self (archival footage)

Audre Lorde

as Self (archival footage)

Anne Sexton

as Self (archival footage)

Peter Orlovsky

as Self (archival footage)

Jack Elliott

as Self (archival footage)