The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

The camera is magic

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.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2017-06-30
  • Runtime: 76 min
  • Country: United States of America
  • Language: English
  • Status: Released
  • IMDb Rating: 6.8
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography poster