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Hardcover with dust jacket, 296 pages
~8.5 in. x ~11 in. | 216 mm. x 279 mm.
• On-set photography by Stephen Vaughan
• Original essays on the making of the film and its legacy + original contact sheets and ephemera from Vaughan's personal archive
Edited by Dionne Jones and JC Gabel
As the onset photographer for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, Stephen Vaughan witnessed firsthand from the shadows the creation of one of the most beloved and revered films in cinema history.
SV105401: The Blade Runner Contact Sheets reverse-engineers this beloved cult film using the original contact sheets and other ephemera from Vaughan’s personal collection, discovered after his death in 2018 by Dionne Jones, his executor, screenwriter, and producer.
This is the first book of Vaughan’s extensive enigmatic collection to be published, and it offers a bird’s eye point of view into this particular art form in which Vaughan’s contribution is foundational.
Vaughan’s invisibility cloak allowed him to stalk each scene on set, creating a collage of unseen images, celebrating Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterpiece in a whole new way. The volume also provides Blade Runner devotees with a deeper, more personal look at a film so many have grown to love over the last five decades.
SV105401: The Blade Runner Contact Sheets will feature original essays by Blade Runner actress Joanna Cassidy; Blade Runner scholar and author of Future Noir Paul Sammon; TV writer for Amazon limited series The Man in the High Castle (based on the award-winning novel by Philip K. Dick) Bill Fordes; sci-fi novelist and technology writer Joanne McNeil; and Stephen Vaughan Archive executor and screenwriter Dionne Jones.
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Dionne Jones is a Texas-born actor, writer, and producer, noted for her work in theater and film. A graduate of The Actors Studio MFA program, she has focused on screenwriting and producing, with credits including "Playing to Win," the Jeff Buckley biopic "Everybody Here Wants You," and her directorial debut, "The Goat Shearing." Currently, she is developing a documentary on photographer Stephen Vaughan and a feature about producer Robert Evans.
