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Pullen, Melanie (Photographer); Crissell, Luke, Enright, Robert & Westerbeck, Colin (Contributors) : High Fashion Crime Scenes

Nazraeli Press, Tucson, AZ, 2005

ISBN 159005136X

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Unpaginated. The photographer's breakthrough debut collection. One of the most sensational photographic debuts of our time. Limited Edition of 3000 copies. A brilliant production by Melanie Pullen and Chris Pichler: Oversize-volume format. A very tall and slim book. Pictorial hard boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Melanie Pullen. Texts by Luke Crisell, Robert Enright, and Colin Westerbeck. List of Plates appended at the end. Printed on thick glossy stock paper to the highest standards. In matching pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Melanie Pullen's "High Fashion Crime Scenes". The photographer's stunning fusion of voyeurism and hype, sensationalism and lurid beauty, reflective of our contemporary, media-driven culture, and presented as fashion images. Fascinating as well as disturbing intersections that characterize The Way We Live Now, Pullen's photographic tableaux are "breathtakingly beautiful works based on vintage crime-scene images, first-hand accounts, and documents Pullen mined from the files of the LAPD. Melanie Pullen began restaging the events, outfitting the victims (her selected models) in current haute couture, and photographing them in her staged settings. To create this work, Pullen enlisted the help of up to sixty people per shoot: Set builders, makeup artists, models, stylists, and stunt crews, among others. Her models have included the actresses Rachel Miner and Juliette Lewis. The collection has received considerable critical acclaim in the national and international press. Over the past three years, the artist has worked as a commercial fashion photographer. She has shot layouts for Flaunt and Rolling Stone Magazines" (Chris Pichler). An absolute "must-have" title for Melanie Pullen collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Melanie Pullen. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 57 plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MELANIE PULLEN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 159005136X.

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