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.
Crew
Errol Morris
Director
Steven Hathaway
Editor, Producer
Nathan Swingle
Cinematography
Robert Fernandez
Executive Producer
Julia Sheehan
Executive Producer
Molly Rokosz
Associate Producer
Jesse Wann
Co-Producer
Angela Minuty
Line Producer
Nick Pavey
Sound Effects Editor
Joel Dougherty
Supervising Sound Editor
Sean P. Carroll
Visual Effects
Paul Leonard-Morgan
Original Music Composer
Cameron Steenhagen
Dialogue Editor
Eugenia Magann Haynes
Art Direction
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