Melanie Pullen is another photographer I've been obsessing over. Her collection of more than one hundred photographs is comprised of High Fashion Crime Scenes based on vintage crime-scene images she mined from the files of the Los Angeles Police Department, the County Coroner’s Office and other primary sources. Drawn to rich details and compelling stories preserved in the criminal records, she began outfitting the “victims” (her selected models) in current haute couture, and photographing them in her staged settings.
If you're in LA you can check out her exhibit at Ace Gallery. Creepy neatoooooo.
Source and PC. melaniepullen.com and yayeveryday
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Goodness, some of those photos are AMAZING! Morbid, but amazing lol. Xxxc
We had her feature on femalepersuasion.net last issue...she is AMAZING...you can read the interview at http://fpgirlcrush.blogspot.com/
in the archives under 2008...
love her
I featured her work in my blog too last May. I adore her High Fashion Crime Scenes, the pictures and the idea behind them, but it seems a lot of people find them really disturbing, pointing out they glamorize violence against women. I personally find there's more criticism than a mere spectacularization of crime.
Wow, what a great photo this is!
love these photos!
There's a hint of Guy Bourdin's aesthetics in her work, don't you think?
rad
i am in love with this artist! revamping murder scenes with haute couture. couldn't be better.
This is a killer photo! (no pun intended lol)
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Fashion photography really needs artists who does this kind of innovative work. Another 'leaping models' photoshoot and I might just lose it. Thanks for posting this!
I have and LOVEEEEE this book.
love her xx
That's super cool! :)
hello,
you are my source of good photographers. thank you for discovering all those great artists and blogs ;) i'm your fan
bbye
weird but artsy fartsy cool
the photography is so morbidly brilliant. my fave is the barrel series in the snow.
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