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SuicideGirls
Winner of the 2005 Independent Publisher Book Award in Erotica. The punk rock pin-up cultural phenomenon known as suicidegirls.com includes journal entries excerpted from the site and over 200 artful, color photos.
160 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 2004
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June 8, 2012
"alternative" beauty. Tattooed young women. The website touts itself as "soft porn." I dunno. I enjoy nude photography books, and this one was fine, but I didn't see any rhyme or reason to the collection of photos nor the order. It's 2004 publication date doesn't lead me to believe this particular book was "unique" for its time period. There has been quite a bit of alternative pinup beauty...most of these are pretty young women--18 and mid 20s...and that to me is a bit disheartening. As a 30yo I would like to see women of my age and older feeling beautiful and baring it all instead of just leaving it as a "young" woman's game...
January 17, 2008
Yes, the essays are occasionally interesting, but sometimes it's just cool to look at nudie pictures. Again, not for everyone--though there are some fairly conservative looking ladies here, oddly enough. Good times...
March 27, 2008
I got this book for the articles...really...I swear.
I can't keep up this lie, I got it for the pictures of beautiful women.
I can't keep up this lie, I got it for the pictures of beautiful women.
December 11, 2008
who needs blondes with fake tits anyways, we want girls with ink damn it!
August 22, 2019
In 2001 Missy Suicide, a young woman with a vision of a new age of Pin-Up, started the web site Suicidegirls dot com. The site features Pin-up style photography of young punk rock chicas from all over the world. With 3,481 suicide girls and 11 mln pictures, some taken by Missy and others taken by the SG's themselves, the site has surely grown. The site has loads of features for members but, when you boil it all down and skim the cream off the top, that cream is still comprised of tastefully erotic photographs of flawless beauties in real time speaking their own languages, and better, speaking their minds.
In 2004 Missy Suicide and Feral House made a sort of year book of the Suicide Girls. The book is split in half. The first half; Missy's photography and the last half; the girls self portraits, bios and quotes. Mary, Bettina, Voltaire, Fractal, Lillith and Quinne are just several of the tattooed and pierced goddesses from the website who have been included in this book and there are dozens more. Suicide Girls pictorial review is beautiful with its polished punk rock Pin-up portraits but, a lot like a year book, it's somehow incomplete without all the rest. SG the website is the rantings, ravings, solemn musings, opinions, and daily happenings in the lives of some of the worlds most beautiful, confident and misunderstood young women.
It's not only in their words that these ladies express themselves but in their self portraits where they show you what they want in whatever format pleases them. In this way, the black and white, grainy, web cam, amateur portraits have more value than the polished photography of the book. Suicide Girls is a community and that is something that Missy may not be able to capture completely in just one book.
In the SG introduction Missy says "If I was going to present images of female beauty, it would be my personal vision of femininity." She has achieved that goal and much more with the website. The book on the other hand, however ground breaking and breath taking it is, just doesn't hold a candle to the original.
In 2004 Missy Suicide and Feral House made a sort of year book of the Suicide Girls. The book is split in half. The first half; Missy's photography and the last half; the girls self portraits, bios and quotes. Mary, Bettina, Voltaire, Fractal, Lillith and Quinne are just several of the tattooed and pierced goddesses from the website who have been included in this book and there are dozens more. Suicide Girls pictorial review is beautiful with its polished punk rock Pin-up portraits but, a lot like a year book, it's somehow incomplete without all the rest. SG the website is the rantings, ravings, solemn musings, opinions, and daily happenings in the lives of some of the worlds most beautiful, confident and misunderstood young women.
It's not only in their words that these ladies express themselves but in their self portraits where they show you what they want in whatever format pleases them. In this way, the black and white, grainy, web cam, amateur portraits have more value than the polished photography of the book. Suicide Girls is a community and that is something that Missy may not be able to capture completely in just one book.
In the SG introduction Missy says "If I was going to present images of female beauty, it would be my personal vision of femininity." She has achieved that goal and much more with the website. The book on the other hand, however ground breaking and breath taking it is, just doesn't hold a candle to the original.
June 7, 2020
I've been a fan and a member since I graduated high school in 2005. I was in the subculture through my youth, and of course as John Cusack says in High Fidelity "It's not what you're like, but what you like". I was always disappointed that outside of alt mags, the girls I knew and hung out with didn't exist in mainstream media. SuicideGirls was a movement. These are the women I hung out with at the mall, spent my weekends driving around town in looking for adventures, and my nights viewing blockbuster rentals and playing survival horror games with. Beautiful, fierce, and fun. This book has beautiful shots that will have you nostalgic, impressed, and in awe.
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June 12, 2007Las chicas suicidas llegaron a mi a través de mi página en myspace, al principio pensé que era más de lo mismo, pero después de pinchar la dirección cambié completamente de opinión enamorándome de las SG y del concepto. Su sitio en myspace tiene una lista de comentarios que definen a SG como “la perfecta utopia”, “un modo de vida”, hay un pana que hasta escribe “conocí a mi esposa en SG, es la mejor inversión que jamás he hecho.”
Las suicidas a primera vista tienen un perfil gótico o punk, pero va más allá de las “apariencias”: pelo pintado, tatuajes, mohicanos, piercing, dreadlocks, modificaciones corporales, estética pin-up, actitud de duras, actitud de lolitas…. en aposicion a las catiras oxigenadas, brobceadas a juro y siliconadas con que nos han bombardeado durante tanto tiempo. ¡Hay belleza más allá del rubio esquelético! y en SG le pusieron nombre “Belleza alternativa”.
Esta apariencia se supedita al discurso pro-feminista nueva era de la compañía: la mujer tiene poder si se apodera de sí misma, si controla su sexualidad y explota el erotismo del que es capaz. En SG plantean una vuelta al erotismo de los 40´s, un slogan reza que las SG son “las hijas y nietas de Betty Page” (famosísima pin-up). Sorprendente, el índice numérico indica que el grueso de los clientes de SG somos mujeres.
El término “suidice girl” es acreditado a Chuck Palahniuk, autor de El Club de la Pelea, en su novela Sobreviviente. Palahniuk tiene un comentario publicado en el sitio SG de myspace “ Gracias Dios que alguien más que Amazon y eBay ha obtenido beneficio de Internet. Algunos han dicho que esto no es un negocio pero si un icono de la cultura.”
Selena Mooney confirma a la novela Sobreviviente como la fuente del nombre en la sección de preguntas frecuentes de SuicideGirls donde añade: “SuicideGirls es un término que mis amigos y yo hemos estado usando para describir a chicas que vemos en la Plaza Pionner de Portland con monopatines en una mano, menores encapuchadas, escuchando a Ice Cube en sus iPods mientras leen un libro del poeta Nick Cave. Son chicas que no encajan en ninguna sub-cultura convencional y no se definen así mismas basándose en gustos como punk, metal, gótico, etc. Pienso que sólo estas clasificaciones identifican a la gente dentro y fuera de la corriente dominante. Es por esto porque el sitio es llamado SuicideGirls.” Selena Mooney también afirma que si hubiese sabido lo grande que su página iba a convertirse, habría pensado mejor el nombre.
SuicideGirls también funciona como una comunidad virtual donde se publican anuncios y perfiles de sus miembros, además de entrevistas con personajes del mundo de la cultura alternativa como David Lynch o el vocalista de Tool y A Perfect Circle Maynard James Keenan. En SG.com encontrarás noticias, podcasts, Blogs de las Suicide Girls o de los propios miembros, foros, creación de grupos, exclusivas y por supuesto una gran tienda con un montón de artículos promocionales. - Esto es lo que supongo debe aparecer en el libro que por supuesto quiero "poseer"-.
Las suicidas a primera vista tienen un perfil gótico o punk, pero va más allá de las “apariencias”: pelo pintado, tatuajes, mohicanos, piercing, dreadlocks, modificaciones corporales, estética pin-up, actitud de duras, actitud de lolitas…. en aposicion a las catiras oxigenadas, brobceadas a juro y siliconadas con que nos han bombardeado durante tanto tiempo. ¡Hay belleza más allá del rubio esquelético! y en SG le pusieron nombre “Belleza alternativa”.
Esta apariencia se supedita al discurso pro-feminista nueva era de la compañía: la mujer tiene poder si se apodera de sí misma, si controla su sexualidad y explota el erotismo del que es capaz. En SG plantean una vuelta al erotismo de los 40´s, un slogan reza que las SG son “las hijas y nietas de Betty Page” (famosísima pin-up). Sorprendente, el índice numérico indica que el grueso de los clientes de SG somos mujeres.
El término “suidice girl” es acreditado a Chuck Palahniuk, autor de El Club de la Pelea, en su novela Sobreviviente. Palahniuk tiene un comentario publicado en el sitio SG de myspace “ Gracias Dios que alguien más que Amazon y eBay ha obtenido beneficio de Internet. Algunos han dicho que esto no es un negocio pero si un icono de la cultura.”
Selena Mooney confirma a la novela Sobreviviente como la fuente del nombre en la sección de preguntas frecuentes de SuicideGirls donde añade: “SuicideGirls es un término que mis amigos y yo hemos estado usando para describir a chicas que vemos en la Plaza Pionner de Portland con monopatines en una mano, menores encapuchadas, escuchando a Ice Cube en sus iPods mientras leen un libro del poeta Nick Cave. Son chicas que no encajan en ninguna sub-cultura convencional y no se definen así mismas basándose en gustos como punk, metal, gótico, etc. Pienso que sólo estas clasificaciones identifican a la gente dentro y fuera de la corriente dominante. Es por esto porque el sitio es llamado SuicideGirls.” Selena Mooney también afirma que si hubiese sabido lo grande que su página iba a convertirse, habría pensado mejor el nombre.
SuicideGirls también funciona como una comunidad virtual donde se publican anuncios y perfiles de sus miembros, además de entrevistas con personajes del mundo de la cultura alternativa como David Lynch o el vocalista de Tool y A Perfect Circle Maynard James Keenan. En SG.com encontrarás noticias, podcasts, Blogs de las Suicide Girls o de los propios miembros, foros, creación de grupos, exclusivas y por supuesto una gran tienda con un montón de artículos promocionales. - Esto es lo que supongo debe aparecer en el libro que por supuesto quiero "poseer"-.
June 29, 2013
The SuicideGirls adult-entertainment website mixes the edginess and attitude of the best alternative music and culture sites with an unapologetic, grassroots approach to sexuality. It is empowered erotica, in which women outside of mainstream culture showcase their unique personal styles on their own pages, where they put up sexy pin up style photos of themselves, post a personal profile, and keep online journals in which they discuss daily experiences (both naughty and nice). Includes an introduction by Missy Suicide about how this revolutionary culture all started.
July 25, 2007
A Christmas gift haha...photography of alternative models...I remember a dozen or so shots stunning me...
September 6, 2007
This is like an ice cream cone on a 110 degree summer day...you want it even though you know it's soooo bad for you. Pass the rainbow sprinkles this way, please.
July 29, 2008
It is what it is. That's all I have to say about it.
December 4, 2008
Ok, so there is not much to read in this book.....but I used to be a photography major and I think that unconventional beauty is awesome....
December 18, 2008
Actually, this might have been better if it had been in 3-D.
September 19, 2009
Whatever you think of the quality of photography, girls or the site, the name "Suicidegirls" still elicits a style and look unique to a generation.
November 22, 2009
I want to be a Suicide Girl!
April 11, 2010
A book filled with pictures of attractive young women wearing only smiles, piercings and tattoos...I love it!
September 30, 2010
Fantastic imagery. Not so many words...but that is kind of the point. Visual art at it's best.
June 20, 2011
Explores the Suicide Girl phenomenon from their start in 2001 to their website's one million unique weekly visitors today.
January 20, 2015
I like it for the articles...
February 25, 2019
Gotta love Suicide Girls
August 2, 2015
It's interesting to look back into the early days of SG and see the history and what an alternative lifestyle might have looked like 10-15 years ago. Also sexy punk chicks, that's awesome too!
April 3, 2008
Permanently on display above my TV.
July 26, 2014
Abysmal.
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