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.
Japanese study overview
B-Side: Elsa Dorfman no Portrait is a Japanese movie of 14,989 characters, with 1,526 unique words and 714 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,526 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×111
- 写真photograph×98
- 年year×44
- 人person×29
- 思うto think×28
- 骨bone×25
- 時time×23
- 写真を撮るto take a picture×23
- 言うto say×22
- 撮るto take (a photograph)×19
- 使うto use (a tool, method, etc.)×18
- 壊れるto be broken×17
- 写真家photographer×16
- 肖像portrait×9
- 暗室darkroom×7
- 野性的wild×7
- 被写体(photographic) subject×5
- 共同創設者co-founder×5
- 現像development (of film)×4
- 印画紙photographic paper×3