A photographer retreats from the hustle and bustle of 1960s New York to Boston where she discovers her calling: taking naturalized photographs in her home studio on a rented, oversized 20x24 Poloroid camera. Uninspired Errol Morris documentary, one of his worse, where he curiously opts to forgo the use of his Interrotron, a device which has helped maintain the fascination level in his movies. As for the subject, though Dorfman seems wise and affable, this is essentially a profile of a family portrait photographer who just happened to be friends with Allen Ginsberg and snap a couple pictures of Bob Dylan.
** out of ****
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The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
Posted on the 06 November 2017 by Kaiser31083 @andythemovieguy
A photographer retreats from the hustle and bustle of 1960s New York to Boston where she discovers her calling: taking naturalized photographs in her home studio on a rented, oversized 20x24 Poloroid camera. Uninspired Errol Morris documentary, one of his worse, where he curiously opts to forgo the use of his Interrotron, a device which has helped maintain the fascination level in his movies. As for the subject, though Dorfman seems wise and affable, this is essentially a profile of a family portrait photographer who just happened to be friends with Allen Ginsberg and snap a couple pictures of Bob Dylan.
** out of ****
