B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
Discount it at your peril: This portrait of the artist as an old woman is a gentle-hearted gem, as profoundly subtle as it is subtly profound.
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 Cambridge, Massachusetts 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,
Art & Artists,
Bio-pic
Runtime
76
Language
English
Director
Errol Morris
Cast
Elsa Dorfman
FEATURED REVIEW
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Errol Morris’s documentary portrait of the photographer Elsa Dorfman is both a celebration of her art and a study of photography itself. Dorfman, who’s eighty years old, welcomes Morris into her studio and tells the remarkable story of her accidental career. An educated, idiosyncratic young Boston ...
Played at
Royal 6.30.17 - 7.13.17
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography Get Tickets
There are currently no showtimes for this film. Please check back soon.