Haunted Found Photo

One of the beautiful images found on the BigHappyFunHouse found photo archive

Vertigo: The Gaze

For me Hitchcock’s Vertigo contains one of the most extraordinary examinations of obsessive desire associated with the m

Vertigo: Haunted Locations – Part Four

Scottie proceeds to follow Madeleine into the chapel, fearing that she is about to kill herself. After Madeleine has fallen to

Vertigo: Haunted Locations – Part Three

There are two sequences which take place at the old Spanish Mission at San Juan Batista which is located 40 miles south of San

Vertigo: Haunted Locations – Part Two

Scottie follows Madeleine to San Francisco Bay at the spectacular Fort Point, location of the Golden Gate Bridge. This is the

Vertigo: Haunted Locations – Part One

I recently visited San Francisco in pursuit of my obsession with Hitchcock’s Vertigo. I spent two weeks methodically vis

The Vertigo of Time

Chris Marker observes, in a remarkably lucid essay on Hitchcock’s greatest film, that the vertigo dealt with in the film is

Undeveloped Photographs

The photographs that seem to haunt me the most are the ones that remain undeveloped, sealed virtualities residing in cameras o

The Virtual Photograph: Haunted Absence

The photographs that seem to haunt me the most are the ones that remain undeveloped, sealed virtualities residing in cameras o

Vertigo: An Obsession with Realism

Photographs seem to haunt our imagination and our relationship to the world, offering as they do a persistent material presenc