Dungarvan Art Trail - The Vertigo Project
b'The Vertigo Project is a series of twenty dye transfer photographic prints, which are hand made from the original camera negative of Alfred Hitchcock\\u2019s masterpiece, Vertigo. It\\u2019s a work of editing and re-presentation in an effort to reveal the artistry of the film in a new and novel way, whilst staying true to the film\\u2019s early colour characteristics. With the full co-operation of the Hitchcock estate, Jean attained access to the original Technicolor dye imbibition print of Vertigo from 1958 at Universal Studios. From this print, Jean edited hundreds of frames down to just twenty. She then made photographic prints from these twenty frames using the same dye transfer printing process that Technicolor used to make the original film. Dye transfer printing had its heyday in the 1950\\u2019s and 60\\u2019s and was made famous by artists such as William Eggleston and Irving Penn. Today, Jean is one of only a very small few still working with this almost obsolete printing process.'