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.
Errol Morris
Director
The Class of ‘9271%
Directed by John Ford70%
Sherman's March65%
My Mom Jayne80%
Maria by Callas73%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
A Plastic Ocean75%
180° South72%
The Cheshire Murders65%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Above Majestic73%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Dawg Fight65%
McQueen74%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me85%
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button69%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Night Will Fall76%
Fuck64%
