Melanie Pullen (born 1975)[1] is an American photographer who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Her childhood home was frequented in the 1970s and 1980s by Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Emily Glen and Shel Silverstein.
Pullen at the age of six would sometimes perform in Washington Square Park with Philippe Petit (Man on Wire) in his neighborhood shows.
[3] Kathleen Guilfoyle, Pullen's mother, is a painter and supported her family through painting murals in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and through peddling her works on the streets of New York.
[4] Shortly after acquiring her first camera in her teens she began shooting for several publications, magazines, catalogs, and record labels.