The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

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.

Cast for The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography...

Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
W.H. Auden
Self (archive footage)
Joni Mitchell
Self (archival footage)
Bob Dylan
Self (archival footage)
Anaïs Nin
Self (archival footage)
Andrea Dworkin
Self (archival footage)
Andrew Wylie
Self (archival footage)
Victor Bockris
Self (archival footage)
Gail Mazur
Self (archival footage)
Harvey Silverglate
Self (archival footage)
Ed Sanders
Self (archival footage)
Audre Lorde
Self (archival footage)
Anne Sexton
Self (archival footage)
Peter Orlovsky
Self (archival footage)
Jack Elliott
Self (archival footage)