Melanie Pullen was born in New York City on September 10, 1975. She is a modern photographer and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Pullen's work has been exhibited internationally, including solo shows at Beverly Hills, White Wall Gallery, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles and Ace Gallery, Seoul Korea, Milan Italy and MiCamera. Her work has also been included in various museum exhibitions and has been broadly published.
Pullen began her early career by taking photos for several catalogues, album covers, magazines and so on. She worked closely with Beck in 2004 for his album Guero and The Information. In addition to Beck she shot many other musicians including Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Rock Kills Kid and The Black Keys.
Pullen is most noted for her series, High Fashion Crime Scene which consists of over one-hundred photographs based based on NYPD and LAPD crime scene files. Her work on High Fashion Crime Scenes (1995-2005) consisted of hundreds of models and crew members. Her photo shoots are highly staged and primarily represented movie sets.
Pullen's photographs are some of the largest images in the world. Her images range in size any where from four feet in length to ten feet in length. Some of her photographs are face-mounted prints and others large-format positives that are backlit in massive light-boxes.
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