In these photographs I hope to invent a series of new images, inspired and influenced by Hitchcock, but that have something of me in them too.
-Abelardo Morell
Alfred Hitchcock is my favorite film director. I have seen all his movies, some, multiple times. I admire the ferocious visual intelligence imbedded in any story he tells. The ways his camera focuses and treats particular objects and interiors in his films carry much of the signature psychological tension of his movies. In some ways it is the camera alone that makes a Hitchcock film. It is possible to look at many of his films with the sound turned off and still derive optical pleasures from them. As a photographer, looking at his stills is enormously rewarding and deeply mysterious. - Abelardo Morell
In my last project, Flowers for Lisa, I ended the series with a picture of a nosegay, similar to the one that Kim Novak buys in Vertigo. This nod to one of Hitchcock's film made me think that I could start making a series of pictures that respond to certain still imagery from his films. In the case of my nosegay picture I was pretty faithful to the frame in Vertigo where it appears. In other pictures of this project I see myself creating and collapsing images that only obliquely refers to the original but still keep a sense of his original vision. - Abelardo Morell
After Hitchcock: Psycho. House. Tent-Camera Image, a limited edition print by Abelardo Morell and published by The Lapis Press, merges photography and cinema through the artist’s innovative use of light. Using a traveling camera obscura — a tent-like structure that projects the surrounding scene onto the ground — Morell captures reflections that transform familiar landscapes into surreal, layered compositions. This technique allows light to reveal hidden details and create new dimensions, much like Alfred Hitchcock’s cinematic mastery of light to evoke mood and suspense. Both artists harness the power of light to uncover unseen worlds, turning the ordinary into the extraordinary through careful manipulation and reflection.