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Jessica Lanier Collection of Woody Allen Set Photographs
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
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Jessica Lanier is a set decorator who has worked on many feature films since 1991. She was the set decorator for three of Woody Allen's films between 1998 and 2001, including Sweet and Lowdown, Small Time Crooks, and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. Lanier holds degrees from Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture and teaches at Salem State University.
The collection consists of set decorator Jessica Lanier's set photographs for several of Woody Allen's films from 1999 to 2001, including Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Small Time Crooks (2000), and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), all of which were shot in various locations across New Jersey and New York. Also present are her copies of the shooting scripts and revisions for Small Time Crooks and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.
Photographs primarily consist of contemporary color prints and Polaroids, as well as some 35mm film negatives. Shooting scripts, script revisions, and documents regarding the photographs' use are also sometimes included, as are keys that explain the set codes, set names, locations, and scene numbers. Photographs were removed from large binders, and their original organization by scene number was preserved.
Materials are arranged chronologically by film project, then by set number.
Gift of Jessica Lanier in 2015 (AM 2015-81).
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This collection was processed by Kelly Bolding in May 2015. Finding aid written by Kelly Bolding in May 2015.
Nothing was removed from the collection during 2015 processing.
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- Motion picture plays, American. -- photographs -- 20th century
- Motion picture set designers -- United States. -- photographs -- 20th century
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Kelly Bolding
- Finding Aid Date
- 2015
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The collection is open for research.
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