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