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The Hitch in Hitchcock
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Stored in: Photography News
Posted On: February 06 2008
By: Brittney Bush
Photo © Linda's Manymuses
The March 2008 edition of Vanity Fair is its 14th annual Hollywood Issue. This year the magazine decided to recreate famous scenes from several Alfred Hitchcock movies in photographic form, and a cool behind the scenes article, It’s the Hitch in Hitchcock, details some of the challenges the VF team faced putting the spread together. "Hitchcock was such a stickler about getting things on set exactly the way he wanted them, and everybody working on the Vanity Fair shoots was mindful of making sure the details were correct this time, too. That wasn’t always easy."
Any problem is more easily solved when you have a Vanity Fair-sized budget, though. Haviing an exact replica of Cary Grant's North by Northwest suit made - by the same tailors that created the original - is moderately impressive. Having an entire phone booth built? That's not just Hollywood style, that's Hollywood cash.
Given the lack of phone booths today, it was impossible to find one the right size for the picture inspired by The Birds (with Jodie Foster in the Tippi Hedren role). So senior photography and beauty editor SunHee Grinnell, who oversaw the portfolio, had a 1960s-vintage phone booth built for the occasion.
Photographer Art Streiber and his team paid the daily wages of an entire team of farm workers to be able to shoot in a nearby field. Mark Seliger had a dock built onto a water tank so he could get just the right angle for his shot. Suddenly my Gorillapod doesn't look so sexy... but maybe one day I too will make it to the Big Time.
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On February 07, 2008, Greg Fallis said ...
I'm sorry...building a phone booth is cool, but much cooler in my opinion is the Cary Grant/North by Northwest suit. Made by the same tailors. Lawdy. If the phone booth had been made by the same group of carpenters I'd be more impressed.
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