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Lot 103

Melanie Pullen
(born 1975)
Mr Rossi, from "High Fashion Crimes"

4 October 2021, 14:00 EDT
New York

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Melanie Pullen (born 1975)

Mr Rossi, from "High Fashion Crimes", 2005
Chromogenic print, signed in ink, printed title, date and number '2/5' on a label affixed on the frame backing.
sheet / flush-mount 50 x 36in (127 x 91.5cm)

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Provenance
With Ace Gallery, Los Angeles

Works from Melanie Pullen's acclaimed series, High Fashion Crime Scenes are based on vintage crime scene images she found in the files of the Los Angeles Police Department and the LA County Coroner's Office.
Drawn to the rich details and compelling stories preserved in these criminal records, Pullen began re-enacting these crime scenes, using actresses and models dressed in haute-couture and then photographing them in her elaborately staged settings. Pullen's intention is to use fashion as a means of distracting the viewer from an otherwise gruesome scene and to expose in all of us a kind of unsavory collective voyeurism.

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