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Suicide Girls: Hard Girls, Soft Light Hardcover – 7 Jan. 2013

by Missy Suicide (Author), Courtney Riot (Author)
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
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The SuicideGirls are a collection of more than 2,500 pin-up girls devoted to changing your idea about what makes a woman beautiful ... and they are naked.

Started in Portland, Oregon, by Missy Suicide and her friends in 2001, the SuicideGirls broke conventional notions of beauty and the pin-up girl ideal as defined by men's and women's magazines and the culture at large.

In addition to the millions of visitors that frequent the SG Website, this book will appeal to both men and women (their membership is split nearly equally) who thought the shy, artsy chick with the black eyeliner and nose ring was the sexiest girl in high school (every guy in Silverlake, Williamsburg, and beyond).

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  1. Print length
    204 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    AMMO Books LLC
  4. Publication date
    7 Jan. 2013
  5. Dimensions
    28.58 x 2.18 x 28.09 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1934429953
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1934429952
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""They're the girl next door but more colorful and with better record collections."" --Spin

""Heavily-tattooed [Angelina Jolie] special ordered Hunky Valentine [Brad Pitt] the naughty coffee table book, 'SuicideGirls: Hard Girls, Soft Light, ' a collection of more than 2,500 photos of young, tattooed, and nude pinups."" --National Enquirer

About the Author

Combining her love of pin-up photography, music and art with personal ideals of female empowerment nurtured in DIY culture, Missy founded SuicideGirls as a place where a woman can be herself and where her confidence, creativity and uniqueness are what defines her. While it is true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Missy found the camera lens of mainstream media a bit myopic for her taste. SuicideGirls began and has grown from a desire to expand mainstream culture's definition of what is beautiful, and to show that it can be realized in a more diverse range of women than those who grace the pages of most fashion magazines and movie posters. What started for Missy as personal expression has now become a revolution.

Raised in Portland, Oregon in what could be described as an eclectic and artistic environment, Missy combines her traditional fine arts training with new media business acumen in the operation of SuicideGirls. In addition, Missy continues to photograph women for the site. Her photography focuses on depicting how each model feels sexiest about themselves in the photos and has inspired a generation of young women to embrace their bodies and showcase their confidence.

Since launching SuicideGirls, Missy has become a voice for the culture on sexuality outside of what mainstream media is reporting. She has been interviewed on issues relating to music, the Internet, pop culture and body image on numerous radio stations and in publications such as the New York Times, Wired, Spin and Elle. Recently featured as one of the top ""12 Sexiest Jobs in Hollywood"" and the ""20 Sexiest Jobs on the Web"", Missy has appeared on HBO, Fox News, the new hit series ""CSI: NY"" on CBS, as well as the two SuicideGirls movies in constant rotation on Showtime. She hosts a weekly SuicideGirls talk radio show on LA's Indie 103.1 and was recently chosen to model as part of peta2's 2008 ""Ink, Not Mink"" celebrity, anti-fur ad campaign.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ AMMO Books LLC; 1st edition (7 Jan. 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 204 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1934429953
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1934429952
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 28.58 x 2.18 x 28.09 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 103 ratings

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4.8 out of 5 stars
103 global ratings

Customers say

Customers find the art style beautiful and artistic. They appreciate the high-quality pictures and crisp, professional photography. Readers describe the ladies featured as tasteful, sexy, and wild. In addition, they say the book is just pure class with page after page of beautiful suicide girls.

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8 customers mention ‘Art style’8 positive0 negative

Customers find the art style beautiful, sexy, and artistic. They also appreciate the fantastic combination of colors.

"...SG: Hard Girls, Soft light gives a different and refreshing view on alternative beauty with crisp, professional photography which captured the..." Read more

"...tattoos, piercings and real female bodies in tasteful and beautifully arranged photographs. The quality of this book on every level is stunning...." Read more

"...book is an excelent photographic work that combines the most sensual, sexy and wild girls in the world...." Read more

"...This is tasteful nude , no fake sex faces just attractive women .The print is terrible to read at night , but I guess this is a book to be looked at..." Read more

5 customers mention ‘Photography quality’5 positive0 negative

Customers find the photography quality of the book high, crisp, and professional. They say it captures the models perfectly.

"...light gives a different and refreshing view on alternative beauty with crisp, professional photography which captured the models perfectly...." Read more

"...The quality of this book on every level is stunning. A fantastic tribute to the true beauty of women." Read more

"...With very high quality pictures (in all the senses), SG shows, one more time, that women can be beatiful not only in a clasical way, but in the most..." Read more

"...The combination of colors is fantastic and photos very well done." Read more

5 customers mention ‘Taste’5 positive0 negative

Customers find the ladies featured in the book tasteful, sexy, and wild.

"...The lovely ladies featured were tasteful and sexy as well as having stunning artwork!..." Read more

"...models, mostly amateurs, displaying tattoos, piercings and real female bodies in tasteful and beautifully arranged photographs...." Read more

"...photographic work that combines the most sensual, sexy and wild girls in the world...." Read more

"A stunning book of wonderful girls who simply are what makes the world go round. Buy this if you like alt girls with tats and amazing bodies." Read more

4 customers mention ‘Page count’4 positive0 negative

Customers find the book has a high page count. They also mention it features alternative models, mostly amateurs, displaying tattoos, piercings, and real life.

"...Suicide Girls features alternative models, mostly amateurs, displaying tattoos, piercings and real female bodies in tasteful and beautifully..." Read more

"Love suicide girls , all the attitude and tattoos and here they are ; only in soft light and with more style ...." Read more

"This book is just pure class with page after page of beautiful Suicide girls. Treat your coffee table and friends with this fabulous book" Read more

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Top reviews from United Kingdom

Dani
5.0 out of 5 stars Hard to beat!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 May 2013
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After falling in love with Suicide Girls: Beautiful Redefined I had to get my hands on this product. Least to say I was not disappointed! SG: Hard Girls, Soft light gives a different and refreshing view on alternative beauty with crisp, professional photography which captured the models perfectly. The lovely ladies featured were tasteful and sexy as well as having stunning artwork! I was also chuffed as some of my favorite suicide girls were captured within Hard Girls, Soft light. Overall I was very pleased with the book and the theme have it a one up over Beauty Redefined.
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Paddy Navin
5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 March 2014
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A celebration of feminine beauty without a nip or a tuck in sight. Suicide Girls features alternative models, mostly amateurs, displaying tattoos, piercings and real female bodies in tasteful and beautifully arranged photographs. The quality of this book on every level is stunning. A fantastic tribute to the true beauty of women.
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JULIAN IBARRA ONOFRE
5.0 out of 5 stars A visual lecture about women's beatuy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2013
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Suicide Girls new book is an excelent photographic work that combines the most sensual, sexy and wild girls in the world. With very high quality pictures (in all the senses), SG shows, one more time, that women can be beatiful not only in a clasical way, but in the most irreverent too.
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5.0 out of 5 stars at their best
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 November 2013
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Love suicide girls , all the attitude and tattoos and here they are ; only in soft light and with more style . This is tasteful nude , no fake sex faces just attractive women .The print is terrible to read at night , but I guess this is a book to be looked at and admired . A perfect gift .
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Dave Clements
5.0 out of 5 stars Great coffee table material!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 May 2018
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I own all of the SG books and this is just as good as the others. Our coffee table is super nice ;)
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Mickael
5.0 out of 5 stars very artistic photo book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 February 2014
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The models are nice and the photos really artistic. The combination of colors is fantastic and photos very well done.
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B. Alexander
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 January 2016
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Mr. David A. Shaw
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 December 2013
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A stunning book of wonderful girls who simply are what makes the world go round. Buy this if you like alt girls with tats and amazing bodies.
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Travis T.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great coffee table book!
Reviewed in Canada on 6 January 2020
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What a beautiful and artistic book, amazing thing of beauty.
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Lee
5.0 out of 5 stars Parfaitement conforme à l'annonce
Reviewed in France on 14 May 2019
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Bonne qualité, photos magnifiques, tatouages top. Je recommande
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matd
5.0 out of 5 stars consigliassimo
Reviewed in Italy on 30 September 2014
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veramente un bel libro, fatto bene.. insomma uno di quei libri che ti chiedi già.. ma è già finito? ogni pagina ti lascia in silenzio
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Multi Media Addict
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in the United States on 11 February 2013
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First, from a product quality standpoint, this is well made with a good binding and high quality photos on high quality paper stock.

My one wish for the book would have been that it would have been organized more like the previous book Beauty Redefined. Hard Girls, Soft Light seems to skip from model to model too fast, mostly a single page at a time. I would have liked small 3-4 page sections featuring each model more.

Another poster commented that they wished that there would have been more models with tattoos and piercings. I think that this misses the entire point of SG. SG is about acknowledging a wide range of beauty that is outside the mainstream definition, whether it be through body modification or non-traditional body types or looks. By trying to pigeonhole the models represented into a certain look, you are actually going against the very thing that SG is trying to change. The point of the book is that the models are all different from both each other and the traditional standard (even if they don't have body mods). They all project a different image of beauty.
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Guillemin
5.0 out of 5 stars The book of nudes your girlfriend will steal from you
Reviewed in Germany on 2 June 2014
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These girls are posing strictly for each other. They are completely self-conscious, however sassy their looks may look and however brazen they may lock eyes with the camera. The special things they share -- perhaps the ink, the nudity, or the youthful spirit of rebellion -- appears to be about breaking conventions of high fashion, main-stream role models and nude photography of the female body. And the book does all that, breaks the conventions all right (not that they really need another assault). Much more interesting though is not what the images contest but what they create: a lovely covenant of girls who subscribe to alternative notions of female beauty, who love to show themselves after literally inscribing these notions of beauty onto their bodies, and who pose collectively, even if there is only one girl in a given picture. What gets me is that they are doing the pictures for themselves, and for each other, and that the book radiates so much warmth and empathy as a result. And, by inference, so much authenticity. It is something like a fable on what authentically feminine nude photography would look like, not because it is cheekier and sassier, but because the cheek and sass is shared -- with other cheeky, sassy chicks. If you want your girlfriend to look at female nudes with you and to like what she sees, this is the book you should get. The most innovative, sensuous and serene volume of nudes I have bought in years, and simultaneously the most tender and warmest one.
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