Collection Rotation: Anne McGuire Posted on December 14, 2009 by Suzanne
Our monthly feature, Collection Rotation: some wonderful guest organizes a mini-exhibition from our collection works online. This month’s guest-curator is the totally marvelous San Francisco artist and filmmaker ANNE MCGUIRE. You can see some of her work in JIGSAMENTALLAMA, on through 12/19, at David Cunningham Projects. Thanks Anne!
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All these coincidences are driving me crazy.
It starts with my grandmother, born in 1905:
Grandma McGuire, photographer unknown
The photographer Roger M. Parry was also born in 1905. That makes my Grandma and Parry contemporaries.
Parry took this picture called Madeleine, in 1938. It’s of a woman’s bun on the back of her head. Madeleine is also the female protagonist of Hitchcock’s VERTIGO, a movie about a man obsessed with a woman named Madeleine who wears a bun. There’s a great scene in VERTIGO where Johnny and Madeleine visit Mission Dolores, two blocks from where I live. The photo by Parry predates Hitchcock’s movie (and the story it’s based on) by a couple of decades.
Roger M. Parry, Madeleine, 1938; Collection SFMOMA © Estate of Roger Parry, courtesy Nicholas Callaway
Saul Bass, Anatomy of a Murder, 1959; Collection SFMOMA © Estate of Saul Bass
