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

Cast:

Elsa Dorfman
Self 

Errol Morris
Self 

Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage) 

W.H. Auden
Self (archive footage) 

Joni Mitchell
Self (archival footage) 

Bob Dylan
Self (archival footage)