The Virgin Suicides draws on British fashion photographer Corinne Day's on-set negatives to give unprecedented visual access to Sofia Coppola's debut film — its staging, its atmosphere, and the intimate world built around the Lisbon sisters.
About This Book
Published to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Coppola's cult debut, this volume assembles photographs that Corinne Day — renowned for her unadorned, grungy work with iconic 1990s models — shot on the set of The Virgin Suicides. The images move between the actors at work and between takes, capturing the candid posturing and pensive expressions that defined the film's intimate, collaborative atmosphere. Fragments of set and costume design recur as visual motifs: crucifixes, pink lace bras, homecoming dresses, beauty products, toffee apples. Together they compose a portrait of adolescent yearning and suburban repression that mirrors, and deepens, Coppola's own vision. New texts by Sofia Coppola and Jeffrey Eugenides open a dialogue between the source novel and its adaptation.
Key Features
- 88 pages of on-set photography edited from Corinne Day's original negatives
- New texts by Sofia Coppola and Jeffrey Eugenides
- Designed by Anamaria Morris for Joseph Logan Design
- Published by MACK
What You'll Discover
- How Corinne Day's documentary instinct — shaped by her 1990s fashion photography — translated to a narrative film set, producing images that feel neither promotional nor journalistic
- The visual language Coppola constructed around adolescence: the specific objects, garments, and domestic details that carry the film's emotional register
- The relationship between candid on-set photography and the finished cinematic work — what Day's images reveal that the film itself cannot show
- How Eugenides's original novel, Coppola's adaptation, and Day's photographs form a three-way conversation about the representation of girlhood and repression
About the Author
Sofia Coppola is a filmmaker whose debut feature, The Virgin Suicides, established her distinct approach to depicting womanhood — empathetic, unaffected, and attuned to interiority. Corinne Day was a British fashion photographer celebrated for her raw, unglamourised portraits of iconic models during the 1990s.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 88
- Dimensions: 200 x 240 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781915743824
- Publisher: MACK
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Film and photography enthusiasts, collectors of MACK publications, students of screen adaptation and visual culture, and readers drawn to the intersection of fashion photography and cinema.