Dina Goldstein’s Fallen Princesses

Ninja July 6th, 2009

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Dina Goldstein is best known for her photograph series—The Gaza Strip, The Trackrecord Project, and David Series. Her most recent photograph series, Fallen Princesses, takes a look Disney fairy tales striped of their happy endings.

These works place Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in an environment that articulates her conflict. The ‘…happily ever after’ is replaced with a realistic outcome and addresses current issues.

As a young girl, growing up abroad, I was not exposed to Fairy tales. These new discoveries lead to my fascination with the origins of Fairy tales. I explored the original brothers Grimm’s stories and found that they have very dark and sometimes gruesome aspects, many of which were changed by Disney. I began to imagine Disney’s perfect Princesses juxtaposed with real issues that were affecting women around me, such as illness, addiction, and self-image issues.
–Dina Goldstein


Belle from The Beauty and the Beast under the knife


Rapunzel in chemo


Snow White and her new brood


A still slumbering Sleeping Beauty has been moved into Prince Charming’s senior’s home

Via JPG Magazine

Thanks again for the tip, Ray!

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  • cjniya
    I believe that at least eighty percent of girls in America are living in the dream of having a fairy tale life. They believe one day the fairy godmother would bring everything to them. They believe that without high education, they could also find a good job that has less pressure but earns big money. So there are lots of girls want to be the models and actresses, they do not know the hardships of being these people, they just know that they could earn a lot and look beautiful.
    As lots of girls are dreaming of having a good job, there are more girls dreaming of having a golden bachelor to be their boyfriend and one day he would propose to her. Then the fairy tale of Cinderella comes true. Though it is stupid, but I believe that if they could, girls would like to have a rich man as the husband. They read too many fairy stories in their childhood so they believe that they are the beautiful princesses and only the noble prince could marry them. Some of them join the spinsters’ club because of their daydreaming. And even when they wear the rubber wristbands with the word “Marry Me” in the spinsters’ party, they are still waiting for the Prince Charming.
    Sometimes I think that with fairy tales, kids could have a beautiful memory of their childhood and have a wonderful vision for the real world, but with too many fairy tales, an adult could be useless for this society because of his or her daydreaming. They would leave things and wait for fairy godmother to deal with them. They would wait for the opportunity to fall from the heaven and hit dead against them. This thought would destroy their life and kill them one day. Shall we stop telling fairy stories to kids?
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