Melanie Pullen
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Melanie Pullen (born New York City 1975) is a American photographer noted for her series based crime scene referencing the aesthetics of the Charles Jourdan series by Guy Bourdin.
The series, "High Fashion Crime Scenes" was debuted by ACE Gallery Beverly Hills in a solo exhibition of almost one-hundred large scale photographs circa May 2005 and has since traveled internationally. Her notable series was published by Nazraeli Press. Each image is situated around actual crime scene documentation derived from police records, in which high-fashion attire (Prada, Gucci) were worn by the victims.
Pullen's work has been featured in Vogue, ArtWeek, The New York Times, ELLE and other international publications.
Melanie currently has her latest series Violent Times on display at ACE Gallery through April 2009 and opening in San Francisco at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery on March 5, 2009 and running through April.