High Fashion Crime Scenes (Special Print Edition)
$645.00
High Fashion Crime Scenes (Special Print Edition) by Melanie Pullen. First edition (2005). First impression. Large format hardback in new condition. Housed in a clamshell box. Comes with a signed original Giclee print (36 x 28 cm). Actual images size - 31 x 23 cm. The print is signed, titled and numbered by Melanie Pullen. It also comes in a custom case. The book is signed by Melanie Pullen to title page. No markings. This is a new book. The book has a dust jacket. Please see pictures. Any questions please get in touch.
Information about the print options
Phones - AP/3
Untitled (Water Series) - AP/4
Dorothy - 9/10
About High Fashion Crime Scenes
This series is based on vintage crime scene images Pullen mined from the files of The Los Angeles Police Department and The LA County Coroner’s Office. Drawn to the rich details and compelling stories preserved in the criminal records. Pullen began re-enacting these crime scenes, with well known actresses and models. Outfitting the “victims” in current haute-couture, and then photographing them in her elaborately staged settings. Photographs from this series employ the power of fashion to disguise, distract, and to draw the viewer’s attention away from the otherwise gruesome subjects. In High Fashion Crime Scenes, Pullen focuses on both social values and taboos. While purposely taking aim at the media’s exploitation of sex, gender, and violence. Pullen herself has noted that she targets society’s glamorization of violent acts and crimes by literally re-dressing what are deeply disturbing events, forcing the viewer to then question their own values and observations.
