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.
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography has generally received positive reviews.
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The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography was released in 2017 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 57 reviews, giving The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (2017) an average rating of 70%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 84%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 77%.
With a score of 70%, The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2017, which stands at 60%.
Other movies from 2017 with similar scores include films like Beauty and the Beast, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and American Made.
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