The Art of Obsession: Vertigo's Visual References to Portrait Painting
In Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece "Vertigo," the camera lingers on a portrait of a woman named Carlotta Valdes hanging in San Francisco's Legion of Honor museum. The moment is quietly pivotal—detective Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) watches as Madeleine Elster (Kim Novak) sits motionless before the painting, her blonde hair arranged in the same d…
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