The camera is magic
6.8
76 min
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.
Name | Character | Team | |
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Elsa Dorfman | Self | Unowned | |
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Errol Morris | Self | Unowned |
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Allen Ginsberg | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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W.H. Auden | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Joni Mitchell | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Bob Dylan | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Anaïs Nin | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Andrea Dworkin | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
Andrew Wylie | Self (archive footage) | Unowned | |
Victor Bockris | Self (archive footage) | Unowned | |
Gail Mazur | Self (archive footage) | Unowned | |
Harvey Silverglate | Self (archive footage) | Unowned | |
Audre Lorde | Self (archive footage) | Unowned | |
Anne Sexton | Self (archive footage) | Unowned | |
Peter Orlovsky | Self (archive footage) | Unowned | |
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Jack Elliott | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
Ed Sanders | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |