What if Cinderella had taken a spill down the stairs after she lost that glass slipper? Or Ariel had ended up washed ashore instead of in the arms of Prince Eric? Haven’t you ever been curious as to why Sleeping Beauty required so much more downtime than the rest of us? If you’ve got a Disney Princess-obsessed kid in your life, then you’ll want to keep her as far away as possible from the eerie images in Thomas Czarnecki’s darkly hilarious series From Enchantment to Down. Everyone else will likely enjoy this French artistic director’s slightly sadistic twist on classic fairy tales as much as we do.
[via My Modern Met]
Comments (16)
You might want to put a trigger warning on this. Not for Disney fans, but for folks who’ve experienced violence, sexual and otherwise. Or at least let folks know in the header that they aren’t ‘fallen’ but rather dead bodies. I know yr not a feminist site but it seems kind of obvious that you might want to warn people that they are about to look at some pretty disturbing images. Thanks!
I hear ya Lindsay, not that these images are disturbing per se; more like breathtakingly lame.
What a wasted opportunity. :(
SO EFFING ORIGINAL OMG!!!!
I mean, emotionally injured, powerless, faceless fairy tale women in objectified sexualized positions. WHODA THUNK???
Ew, no. ‘Darkly hilarious’? What’s actually funny about them? They somehow manage to be both boring and deeply women-hating. That isn’t going to get a giggle out of me.
He seems to have some rape fantasies possibly. (I say that because 2 of the images have the back of the dresses up in a suggestive manner)
And although, I like dark stuff but I don’t think much of these CSI Fairy images. Isn’t this an easy route to take it?
Totally agree with other commenters, very women hating.
This is odd, more original the photos of the swiss artist Chantal Michel from 1999
http://www.chantalmichel.ch/fotografie/0100/index.html
Pretty misogynistic without any ounce of artistic originality.
Uggh!This rampant sexism hardly qualifies as art. Therapist!
Disney misogyny is bad enough without celebrating women killed, abused and tied up in cellars. The aggressive fetishistic view of women in art has been done better by artists like Araki and Anna Gaskell. I see no real interest in these photos, in fact they are just an unpleasant reminder of how far women need to go still.
Different take here! While I agree that the images are way disturbing, it doesn’t bother me too much to see these characters put down this way. I don’t see it as women-hating, I see it more as grossly-romanticized-prince-charming-does-not-exist-society-is-tired-of-putting-this-bs-fiction-on-a-pedestal. Color contrasts are lovely!
What really pisses me off about these stunningly unoriginal photos is that the princesses in many of the original stories are not the hapless females of Disney, but brave heroines in their own right. Why is it that men keep buying into the idea that showing women as rape and murder victims is original and transgressive rather than the tired and overdone trope that it is?
Definitely NOTHING hilarious about these photos-just exceptionally boring, misogynistic junk!
*You need to go to Dina Goldstein’s fabulous photo essay “Fallen Princesses” to cleanse yourself and redeem artistic originality. Dina blends the essence of the fairy tales with the pitfalls of modern culture. Enjoy!
http://www.fallenprincesses.com/fallenprincesses.html
that last one of Pocahontis takes the cake. cut out the rape shit, not all your readers are guys.
Thanks Andrea- http://www.fallenprincesses.com/fallenprincesses.html
is way better and makes ya chuckle!
Stunned and disappointed these violent, disempowering photos were recommended so lightly.
But thank you for sharing Andrea! Actually clever and interesting
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