Author: Pullen, Melanie
Title: Melanie Pullen: High Fashion Crime Scenes
Description: Tucson, Nazraeli Press, 2005. Hardcover. Matte, color-illustrated boards. There is a matching dust jacket with the title in red and in white down a light blue spine. Unpaginated. Profusely illustated with color images. "Melanie Pullen's collection of more than one hundred photographs that comprise High Fashion Crime Scenes is based on vintage crime-scene images she mined from the files of the Los Angeles Police Department, the Country Coroner's Office, and other primary sources. Drawn to the rich details and compelling stories preserved in the criminal records, she began re-enacting the crime scenes, outfitting the "victims" (her selected models) in current haute coutore, and photographing them in her staged settings. VG/VG-: Ex art library book. Some wrinkling to the top of the dust jacket. Stamp on front free end page. Stamp on back free end page. Fabulous shelf appeal.

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