About the Book
The Virgin Suicides photobook — overview
The Virgin Suicides is not a standard “making-of” book. It reads more like a second atmosphere around Sofia Coppola’s first feature: quieter, more intimate, and less bound to narrative sequence. Corinne Day’s photographs stay close to the porous edge between character and actor, where the Lisbon sisters seem to exist at once as figures in a film and as young bodies moving through a set.
That doubleness gives the book its force. Day’s eye, known for its raw and unadorned treatment of beauty, meets Coppola’s own first sustained study of girlhood, suburban enclosure, and adolescent longing. Clothes, bedrooms, crucifixes, bras, cosmetics, homecoming dresses, and toffee apples appear not as props but as pressure points in a larger emotional system. The result is a photobook that returns to The Virgin Suicides not through plot, but through mood, texture, and the fragile material world around the Lisbon sisters.
Edition details
- Editor: Sofia Coppola
- Photographer: Corinne Day
- Imprint: Important Flowers
- Publisher: MACK
- Publication date: May 2025
- Format: Embossed linen hardcover with tipped-in image
- Size: 20 × 24 cm
- Pages: 88
- Texts: new texts by Sofia Coppola and Jeffrey Eugenides
- Design: Anamaria Morris for Joseph Logan Design
- ISBN: 978-1-915743-82-4
Mini-FAQ
- Is this The Virgin Suicides photobook? Yes — this is the 2025 photobook edited by Sofia Coppola from Corinne Day’s original set negatives.
- Is this a MACK book or an Important Flowers book? It is published by MACK under Important Flowers, Sofia Coppola’s imprint.
- Is this the film tie-in or the novel? This is a photography book linked to Coppola’s film adaptation, not Jeffrey Eugenides’s original novel.
- Where can I buy The Virgin Suicides book? If this copy is in stock, you can purchase it directly from this product page.
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