Newsletter

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

Description

Close Description

Elsa Dorfman is a master practitioner of a rare photographic format: the large-size Polaroid 20″ x 24″ camera.

For three decades in her studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she took thousands of portraits, including those of accomplished friends like poet Allen Ginsberg and singer Jonathan Richman. Now in her late seventies, she opens her archives and her memories for this documentary by her long-time friend, Errol Morris.

Full Credits

Close Credits

Directed by
Errol Morris

Production Company
Fourth Floor Productions, Moxie Pictures

Executive Producer
Robert Fernandez, Julia Sheehan

Producer
Steven Hathaway

Cinematographer
Nathan Allen Swingle

Editor
Steven Hathaway