Thursday, 26 September 2013

Research • Dina Goldstein

Dina Goldstein's work focusses on the work of the hidden fairytale, the fairytale that has not been told and the truth behind it in modern day society. Her collection is titled "Fallen Princesses" and focusses on the commonly known Disney Princesses and their downfall in the modern age. Beauty from Beauty and the Beast has been given excessive plastic surgery, The Little Mermaid is locked up in a tank at a aquariaum and Snow White has become a young mother with a lazy, couch potato husband.


This, I feel, is the best edited photograph from the series. The Little Mermaid was my favourite Disney fairytale when I was a child, so seeing it portrayed in this way makes me think of how innocent my childhood was and how times have changed when growing up. When we were younger, our minds were protected from the wrong doings in society. Sex, drugs and 'rock and roll', to coin a popular phrase, were hidden from our innocent eyes and we were not educated on the bad things that existed. I feel that this series of images plays with that, opening our eyes to the wrong side of fairytales.


This is the most hard hitting photograph, and I picked it as I wanted to speak about it from a photographical point of view, as well as a personal point of view. The image is very clean, also clinical, everything is laid out in a particular fashion meaning the image is not too clumsy and busy. The main focus of the photograph is the girl without her hair, clutching it inbetween her hands. There also seems to be a glow around her head, like a white light radiating from her. Now, from a personal point of view, I think this image represents, again, the innocent in children of the modern age. A lot of children are not aware of illnesses like cancer until it affects their family, I think this advertisement should be used as a campaign for children's cancer awareness, in an attempt to raise knowledge in the younger generation.


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