Article: San Francisco: chasing visions of vertigo.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK was infatuated with San Francisco, calling it the "Paris of America." No one ever captured the city's majesty and vulnerability as Hitch did in his haunting, hypnotic 1958 cinematic masterpiece of obsession, VERTIGO. Bay Area photographer BRADFORD NOBLE reincarnates TV goddess BRINI MAXWELL as the doomed Madeleine in our photo homage to this queerest of all cities.

Object of Obsession

"There is someone within me, and she says I must die? Vertigo was Hitchcock's sad valentine to San Francisco, full of in-the-know references to the Bay Area, a place he called his part-time home. Martin Scorsese (one of Vertigo's biggest fans) describes ...

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