High Fashion Crime Scenes

Download or read book High Fashion Crime Scenes written by Melanie Pullen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.