Dina Goldstein Photography
Israeli, b. 1969
Dina Goldstein is an Israeli contemporary visual artist, born in 1969, in Tel Aviv, Israel and based in Vancouver, Canada. She is known for her conceptual and complex photographic work in a pop surrealist style. Her first major projects, In the Dollhouse and Fallen Princesses, were very successful. The Dollhouse is an exploration of beauty, power and sexuality through images, featuring a famous couple of overly perfect dolls, Ken and Barbie. Fallen Princesses takes an ironic look at the Disney princesses, imagining them in real-life scenarios, but with a less happy ending. Her third project, Gods of Suburbia presents a visual analysis of the place of religion and faith in today's world. In Last Supper, East Vancouver, Dina uses Leonardo da Vinci's famous mural to recreate L’Ultima Cena, the meal between Jesus and his apostles, in a street gang in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. She was awarded the Arte Laguna special prize, in 2012 and in 2014, she won the grand prize at Prix Virginia.
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Artist: Dina Goldstein
Passed Out
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Nashville, TN
Dina Goldstein is a visual artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is a photographer and pop-surrealist with a background in documentary photography. Goldstein creates tableaus with a nuanced visual language that places the mundane and everyday in unusual settings to inspire insight into the human condition.
She is most known for her series Fallen Princesses, created in 2007, depicting humanized Disney Princesses...
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Dining Alone
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Nashville, TN
Dina Goldstein is a visual artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is a photographer and pop-surrealist with a background in documentary photography. Goldstein creates tableaus with a nuanced visual language that places the mundane and everyday in unusual settings to inspire insight into the human condition.
She is most known for her series Fallen Princesses, created in 2007, depicting humanized Disney Princesses...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Archival Pigment
Bedroom Magazines
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Nashville, TN
Dina Goldstein is a visual artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is a photographer and pop-surrealist with a background in documentary photography. Goldstein creates tableaus with a nuanced visual language that places the mundane and everyday in unusual settings to inspire insight into the human condition.
She is most known for her series Fallen Princesses, created in 2007, depicting humanized Disney Princesses...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Archival Pigment
The Dream
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Nashville, TN
Dina Goldstein is a visual artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is a photographer and pop-surrealist with a background in documentary photography. Goldstein creates tableaus with a nuanced visual language that places the mundane and everyday in unusual settings to inspire insight into the human condition.
She is most known for her series Fallen Princesses, created in 2007, depicting humanized Disney Princesses...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Archival Pigment
Last Supper, East Vancouver
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Dina Goldstein is known for her conceptual and complex photographic work in a pop surrealist style. Her first major projects, In the Dollhouse and Fallen Princesses, were very succes...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Elohim
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Dina Goldstein is known for her conceptual and complex photographic work in a pop surrealist style. Her first major projects, In the Dollhouse and Fallen Princesses, were very succes...
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Darwin
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Dina Goldstein is known for her conceptual and complex photographic work in a pop surrealist style. Her first major projects, In the Dollhouse and Fallen Princesses, were very succes...
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Ganesha
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Dina Goldstein is known for her conceptual and complex photographic work in a pop surrealist style. Her first major projects, In the Dollhouse and Fallen Princesses, were very succes...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Buddha
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Dina Goldstein is known for her conceptual and complex photographic work in a pop surrealist style. Her first major projects, In the Dollhouse and Fallen Princesses, were very succes...
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Satan
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Dina Goldstein is known for her conceptual and complex photographic work in a pop surrealist style. Her first major projects, In the Dollhouse and Fallen Princesses, were very succes...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Voodoo
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Dina Goldstein is known for her conceptual and complex photographic work in a pop surrealist style. Her first major projects, In the Dollhouse and Fallen Princesses, were very succes...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Muhammad
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Dina Goldstein is known for her conceptual and complex photographic work in a pop surrealist style. Her first major projects, In the Dollhouse and Fallen Princesses, were very succes...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Xenu
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Dina Goldstein is known for her conceptual and complex photographic work in a pop surrealist style. Her first major projects, In the Dollhouse and Fallen Princesses, were very succes...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Wicca
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Dina Goldstein is known for her conceptual and complex photographic work in a pop surrealist style. Her first major projects, In the Dollhouse and Fallen Princesses, were very succes...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Lakshmi
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Dina Goldstein is known for her conceptual and complex photographic work in a pop surrealist style. Her first major projects, In the Dollhouse and Fallen Princesses, were very succes...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Lilith as Sheeba
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Leaves From The Garden Of Eden is a collection of 100 Jewish fairytales, folktales, mythical and supernatural tales collected and retold by folklorist Howard Schwartz. These rich fab...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Fresh Air Corp
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My latest project, Modern Girl, extrapolates upon past themes of commercialism and identity within Western culture by creating reimagined ad campaigns based upon the famous “pin-up girl” advertising posters of 1930s Shanghai, China. This era heralded the emergence of Asian women as individuals, as they began to break away from Confucius tradition that demanded total filial piety alongside crippling beauty practices like foot binding. However, while an expression of gender emancipation, the posters sowed the seeds of a new form of exploitation: the use of the female form to sell consumer products.
I grew up in Vancouver — regarded as the gateway to the East. It has experienced unprecedented immigration from Hong Kong and China in the past 35 years, turning this once provincial community into a vibrant Asian metropolis. The impact of Asian culture has been profound, not only on the city but on me as an individual and artist. I have come to love Asian film and literature such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land. Such works explore the immigrant experience, something that resonates with my own experiences emigrating from Israel in childhood. Learning to fit in was stressful, however, I realized that the challenges facing my young Asian friends in Vancouver were even greater. They were torn between familial demands of obedience and academic achievement — in opposition to the Western ideals of self-expression and individualism.
The ‘Modern Girl’ image first appeared in the West and was notable for its bold sexuality, with scantily clad women selling everything from clothing, soap and cigarettes to army recruitment. Chinese pin...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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The Tree of Life & The Tree of Knowledge
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Leaves From The Garden Of Eden is a collection of 100 Jewish fairytales, folktales, mythical and supernatural tales collected and retold by folklorist Howard Schwartz. These rich fab...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Revenge Agency
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My latest project, Modern Girl, extrapolates upon past themes of commercialism and identity within Western culture by creating reimagined ad campaigns based upon the famous “pin-up g...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Idea Chews
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My latest project, Modern Girl, extrapolates upon past themes of commercialism and identity within Western culture by creating reimagined ad campaigns based upon the famous “pin-up girl” advertising posters of 1930s Shanghai, China. This era heralded the emergence of Asian women as individuals, as they began to break away from Confucius tradition that demanded total filial piety alongside crippling beauty practices like foot binding. However, while an expression of gender emancipation, the posters sowed the seeds of a new form of exploitation: the use of the female form to sell consumer products.
I grew up in Vancouver — regarded as the gateway to the East. It has experienced unprecedented immigration from Hong Kong and China in the past 35 years, turning this once provincial community into a vibrant Asian metropolis. The impact of Asian culture has been profound, not only on the city but on me as an individual and artist. I have come to love Asian film and literature such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land. Such works explore the immigrant experience, something that resonates with my own experiences emigrating from Israel in childhood. Learning to fit in was stressful, however, I realized that the challenges facing my young Asian friends in Vancouver were even greater. They were torn between familial demands of obedience and academic achievement — in opposition to the Western ideals of self-expression and individualism.
The ‘Modern Girl’ image first appeared in the West and was notable for its bold sexuality, with scantily clad women selling everything from clothing, soap and cigarettes to army recruitment. Chinese pin...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Ashmodai Mirrors
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Leaves From The Garden Of Eden is a collection of 100 Jewish fairytales, folktales, mythical and supernatural tales collected and retold by folklorist Howard Schwartz. These rich fab...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Buy Stuff
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My latest project, Modern Girl, extrapolates upon past themes of commercialism and identity within Western culture by creating reimagined ad campaigns based upon the famous “pin-up g...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Princess in the Tower
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Leaves From The Garden Of Eden is a collection of 100 Jewish fairytales, folktales, mythical and supernatural tales collected and retold by folklorist Howard Schwartz. These rich fab...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Lucky Liquor
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My latest project, Modern Girl, extrapolates upon past themes of commercialism and identity within Western culture by creating reimagined ad campaigns based upon the famous “pin-up girl” advertising posters of 1930s Shanghai, China. This era heralded the emergence of Asian women as individuals, as they began to break away from Confucius tradition that demanded total filial piety alongside crippling beauty practices like foot binding. However, while an expression of gender emancipation, the posters sowed the seeds of a new form of exploitation: the use of the female form to sell consumer products.
I grew up in Vancouver — regarded as the gateway to the East. It has experienced unprecedented immigration from Hong Kong and China in the past 35 years, turning this once provincial community into a vibrant Asian metropolis. The impact of Asian culture has been profound, not only on the city but on me as an individual and artist. I have come to love Asian film and literature such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land. Such works explore the immigrant experience, something that resonates with my own experiences emigrating from Israel in childhood. Learning to fit in was stressful, however, I realized that the challenges facing my young Asian friends in Vancouver were even greater. They were torn between familial demands of obedience and academic achievement — in opposition to the Western ideals of self-expression and individualism.
The ‘Modern Girl’ image first appeared in the West and was notable for its bold sexuality, with scantily clad women selling everything from clothing, soap and cigarettes to army recruitment. Chinese pin...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Easy Grow
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My latest project, Modern Girl, extrapolates upon past themes of commercialism and identity within Western culture by creating reimagined ad campaigns based upon the famous “pin-up girl” advertising posters of 1930s Shanghai, China. This era heralded the emergence of Asian women as individuals, as they began to break away from Confucius tradition that demanded total filial piety alongside crippling beauty practices like foot binding. However, while an expression of gender emancipation, the posters sowed the seeds of a new form of exploitation: the use of the female form to sell consumer products.
I grew up in Vancouver — regarded as the gateway to the East. It has experienced unprecedented immigration from Hong Kong and China in the past 35 years, turning this once provincial community into a vibrant Asian metropolis. The impact of Asian culture has been profound, not only on the city but on me as an individual and artist. I have come to love Asian film and literature such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land. Such works explore the immigrant experience, something that resonates with my own experiences emigrating from Israel in childhood. Learning to fit in was stressful, however, I realized that the challenges facing my young Asian friends in Vancouver were even greater. They were torn between familial demands of obedience and academic achievement — in opposition to the Western ideals of self-expression and individualism.
The ‘Modern Girl’ image first appeared in the West and was notable for its bold sexuality, with scantily clad women selling everything from clothing, soap and cigarettes to army recruitment. Chinese pin...
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Dybuuk
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Leaves From The Garden Of Eden is a collection of 100 Jewish fairytales, folktales, mythical and supernatural tales collected and retold by folklorist Howard Schwartz. These rich fab...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Golem
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Leaves From The Garden Of Eden is a collection of 100 Jewish fairytales, folktales, mythical and supernatural tales collected and retold by folklorist Howard Schwartz. These rich fab...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Ibbur
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Leaves From The Garden Of Eden is a collection of 100 Jewish fairytales, folktales, mythical and supernatural tales collected and retold by folklorist Howard Schwartz. These rich fab...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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King Solomon
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Leaves From The Garden Of Eden is a collection of 100 Jewish fairytales, folktales, mythical and supernatural tales collected and retold by folklorist Howard Schwartz. These rich fab...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Insta World
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My latest project, Modern Girl, extrapolates upon past themes of commercialism and identity within Western culture by creating reimagined ad campaigns based upon the famous “pin-up g...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Planet Earth Water
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My latest project, Modern Girl, extrapolates upon past themes of commercialism and identity within Western culture by creating reimagined ad campaigns based upon the famous “pin-up girl” advertising posters of 1930s Shanghai, China. This era heralded the emergence of Asian women as individuals, as they began to break away from Confucius tradition that demanded total filial piety alongside crippling beauty practices like foot binding. However, while an expression of gender emancipation, the posters sowed the seeds of a new form of exploitation: the use of the female form to sell consumer products.
I grew up in Vancouver — regarded as the gateway to the East. It has experienced unprecedented immigration from Hong Kong and China in the past 35 years, turning this once provincial community into a vibrant Asian metropolis. The impact of Asian culture has been profound, not only on the city but on me as an individual and artist. I have come to love Asian film and literature such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land. Such works explore the immigrant experience, something that resonates with my own experiences emigrating from Israel in childhood. Learning to fit in was stressful, however, I realized that the challenges facing my young Asian friends in Vancouver were even greater. They were torn between familial demands of obedience and academic achievement — in opposition to the Western ideals of self-expression and individualism.
The ‘Modern Girl’ image first appeared in the West and was notable for its bold sexuality, with scantily clad women selling everything from clothing, soap and cigarettes to army recruitment. Chinese pin...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Tasty Spray
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My latest project, Modern Girl, extrapolates upon past themes of commercialism and identity within Western culture by creating reimagined ad campaigns based upon the famous “pin-up girl” advertising posters of 1930s Shanghai, China. This era heralded the emergence of Asian women as individuals, as they began to break away from Confucius tradition that demanded total filial piety alongside crippling beauty practices like foot binding. However, while an expression of gender emancipation, the posters sowed the seeds of a new form of exploitation: the use of the female form to sell consumer products.
I grew up in Vancouver — regarded as the gateway to the East. It has experienced unprecedented immigration from Hong Kong and China in the past 35 years, turning this once provincial community into a vibrant Asian metropolis. The impact of Asian culture has been profound, not only on the city but on me as an individual and artist. I have come to love Asian film and literature such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land. Such works explore the immigrant experience, something that resonates with my own experiences emigrating from Israel in childhood. Learning to fit in was stressful, however, I realized that the challenges facing my young Asian friends in Vancouver were even greater. They were torn between familial demands of obedience and academic achievement — in opposition to the Western ideals of self-expression and individualism.
The ‘Modern Girl’ image first appeared in the West and was notable for its bold sexuality, with scantily clad women selling everything from clothing, soap and cigarettes to army recruitment. Chinese pin...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Good Earth Organics
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My latest project, Modern Girl, extrapolates upon past themes of commercialism and identity within Western culture by creating reimagined ad campaigns based upon the famous “pin-up girl” advertising posters of 1930s Shanghai, China. This era heralded the emergence of Asian women as individuals, as they began to break away from Confucius tradition that demanded total filial piety alongside crippling beauty practices like foot binding. However, while an expression of gender emancipation, the posters sowed the seeds of a new form of exploitation: the use of the female form to sell consumer products.
I grew up in Vancouver — regarded as the gateway to the East. It has experienced unprecedented immigration from Hong Kong and China in the past 35 years, turning this once provincial community into a vibrant Asian metropolis. The impact of Asian culture has been profound, not only on the city but on me as an individual and artist. I have come to love Asian film and literature such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land. Such works explore the immigrant experience, something that resonates with my own experiences emigrating from Israel in childhood. Learning to fit in was stressful, however, I realized that the challenges facing my young Asian friends in Vancouver were even greater. They were torn between familial demands of obedience and academic achievement — in opposition to the Western ideals of self-expression and individualism.
The ‘Modern Girl’ image first appeared in the West and was notable for its bold sexuality, with scantily clad women selling everything from clothing, soap and cigarettes to army recruitment. Chinese pin...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Love Pops
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My latest project, Modern Girl, extrapolates upon past themes of commercialism and identity within Western culture by creating reimagined ad campaigns based upon the famous “pin-up girl” advertising posters of 1930s Shanghai, China. This era heralded the emergence of Asian women as individuals, as they began to break away from Confucius tradition that demanded total filial piety alongside crippling beauty practices like foot binding. However, while an expression of gender emancipation, the posters sowed the seeds of a new form of exploitation: the use of the female form to sell consumer products.
I grew up in Vancouver — regarded as the gateway to the East. It has experienced unprecedented immigration from Hong Kong and China in the past 35 years, turning this once provincial community into a vibrant Asian metropolis. The impact of Asian culture has been profound, not only on the city but on me as an individual and artist. I have come to love Asian film and literature such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land. Such works explore the immigrant experience, something that resonates with my own experiences emigrating from Israel in childhood. Learning to fit in was stressful, however, I realized that the challenges facing my young Asian friends in Vancouver were even greater. They were torn between familial demands of obedience and academic achievement — in opposition to the Western ideals of self-expression and individualism.
The ‘Modern Girl’ image first appeared in the West and was notable for its bold sexuality, with scantily clad women selling everything from clothing, soap and cigarettes to army recruitment. Chinese pin...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Elijah
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Leaves From The Garden Of Eden is a collection of 100 Jewish fairytales, folktales, mythical and supernatural tales collected and retold by folklorist Howard Schwartz. These rich fab...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Memory World
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My latest project, Modern Girl, extrapolates upon past themes of commercialism and identity within Western culture by creating reimagined ad campaigns based upon the famous “pin-up girl” advertising posters of 1930s Shanghai, China. This era heralded the emergence of Asian women as individuals, as they began to break away from Confucius tradition that demanded total filial piety alongside crippling beauty practices like foot binding. However, while an expression of gender emancipation, the posters sowed the seeds of a new form of exploitation: the use of the female form to sell consumer products.
I grew up in Vancouver — regarded as the gateway to the East. It has experienced unprecedented immigration from Hong Kong and China in the past 35 years, turning this once provincial community into a vibrant Asian metropolis. The impact of Asian culture has been profound, not only on the city but on me as an individual and artist. I have come to love Asian film and literature such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land. Such works explore the immigrant experience, something that resonates with my own experiences emigrating from Israel in childhood. Learning to fit in was stressful, however, I realized that the challenges facing my young Asian friends in Vancouver were even greater. They were torn between familial demands of obedience and academic achievement — in opposition to the Western ideals of self-expression and individualism.
The ‘Modern Girl’ image first appeared in the West and was notable for its bold sexuality, with scantily clad women selling everything from clothing, soap and cigarettes to army recruitment. Chinese pin...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Ashmodai Garden
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Leaves From The Garden Of Eden is a collection of 100 Jewish fairytales, folktales, mythical and supernatural tales collected and retold by folklorist Howard Schwartz. These rich fab...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Hair in Milk
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Leaves From The Garden Of Eden is a collection of 100 Jewish fairytales, folktales, mythical and supernatural tales collected and retold by folklorist Howard Schwartz. These rich fab...
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2010s Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Pocahauntas (from the Fallen Princesses series)
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Jack David Zipes
An American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Jasmine (from the Fallen Princesses series)
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Jack David Zipes
An American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and their social and political role in civilizing processes. According to Zipes, fairy tales “serve a meaningful social function, not just for compensation but for revelation: the worlds projected by the best of our fairy tales reveal the gaps between truth and falsehood in our immediate society.” His arguments are avowedly based on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and more recently theories of cultural evolution.
When feminists began -re-writing fairy tales in the 1960s and 1970s, one of their major purposes was to demonstrate that nobody really lives happily ever after, whether in fantasy or reality, and one of the important political assumptions was that nobody will ever live happily ever after unless we change not only fairy-tale writing but social and economic conditions that further exploitative and oppressive relations among the sexes, races, and social classes. This general purpose is still at the root of the best and most serious writing of fairy tales by women, and in recent years, some of the best women painters, artists, photographers, and filmmakers in North America have created unique works that question traditional representations of gender, marriage, work, and social roles.
In order to explain why nobody lives happily ever after, neither in fairy tales nor in real life, and why nobody should invest their time and energy believing in a “happily ever after” realm, I would like to make a few comments about Dina Goldstein’s provocative photographs that pierce the myth of happiness. This is not to say that we cannot be happy in our lives. Rather, I should like to suggest that the fairy-tale notion about happiness must be radically turned on its head if we are to glimpse the myths of happiness perpetuated by the canonical fairy tales and culture industry and to determine what happiness means.
Anyone who has seen Dina Goldstein’s unusual photographs knows that she not only deflowers fairy tales with her tantalizing images, but she also “de-disneyfies” them. Goldstein came to Canada from Israel when she was eight-years-old and had very little experience with the world of Disney films, books, artifacts, and advertisements. It was not until she was much older, when her three-year-old daughter was exposed to the Disney princesses, and when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer that she began to reflect about the impact of the Disneyfied fairy tales. As she has said in an interview with the Vancouver Sun, “I began to imagine Disney’s perfect princesses juxtaposed with real issues that were affecting women around me, such as illness, cancer, addiction and self-image issues. . . . Disney princesses didn’t have to deal with these issues, and besides we really never followed their life past their youth.”
Goldstein’s photo series, “Fallen Princesses,” first appeared on the Internet in the summer of 2009, and they have received global attention as artworks that comment critically on the Disney world and raise many questions about the lives women are expected to lead and the actual lives that they lead. Her photos are not optimistic. Rather, they are subtle, comic, and grotesque images that undo classical fairy-tale narratives and expose some of the negative results that are rarely discussed in public.
For instance, in her macabre portrayal of Snow White, she depicts the gruesome fate of a young woman, who is the spitting image...
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21st Century and Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Photographic Paper
Princess Pea (from the Fallen Princesses series)
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Jack David Zipes
An American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and their social and political role in civilizing processes. According to Zipes, fairy tales “serve a meaningful social function, not just for compensation but for revelation: the worlds projected by the best of our fairy tales reveal the gaps between truth and falsehood in our immediate society.” His arguments are avowedly based on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and more recently theories of cultural evolution.
When feminists began -re-writing fairy tales in the 1960s and 1970s, one of their major purposes was to demonstrate that nobody really lives happily ever after, whether in fantasy or reality, and one of the important political assumptions was that nobody will ever live happily ever after unless we change not only fairy-tale writing but social and economic conditions that further exploitative and oppressive relations among the sexes, races, and social classes. This general purpose is still at the root of the best and most serious writing of fairy tales by women, and in recent years, some of the best women painters, artists, photographers, and filmmakers in North America have created unique works that question traditional representations of gender, marriage, work, and social roles.
In order to explain why nobody lives happily ever after, neither in fairy tales nor in real life, and why nobody should invest their time and energy believing in a “happily ever after” realm, I would like to make a few comments about Dina Goldstein’s provocative photographs that pierce the myth of happiness. This is not to say that we cannot be happy in our lives. Rather, I should like to suggest that the fairy-tale notion about happiness must be radically turned on its head if we are to glimpse the myths of happiness perpetuated by the canonical fairy tales and culture industry and to determine what happiness means.
Anyone who has seen Dina Goldstein’s unusual photographs knows that she not only deflowers fairy tales with her tantalizing images, but she also “de-disneyfies” them. Goldstein came to Canada from Israel when she was eight-years-old and had very little experience with the world of Disney films, books, artifacts, and advertisements. It was not until she was much older, when her three-year-old daughter was exposed to the Disney princesses, and when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer that she began to reflect about the impact of the Disneyfied fairy tales. As she has said in an interview with the Vancouver Sun, “I began to imagine Disney’s perfect princesses juxtaposed with real issues that were affecting women around me, such as illness, cancer, addiction and self-image issues. . . . Disney princesses didn’t have to deal with these issues, and besides we really never followed their life past their youth.”
Goldstein’s photo series, “Fallen Princesses,” first appeared on the Internet in the summer of 2009, and they have received global attention as artworks that comment critically on the Disney world and raise many questions about the lives women are expected to lead and the actual lives that they lead. Her photos are not optimistic. Rather, they are subtle, comic, and grotesque images that undo classical fairy-tale narratives and expose some of the negative results that are rarely discussed in public.
For instance, in her macabre portrayal of Snow White, she depicts the gruesome fate of a young woman, who is the spitting image...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ariel (from the Fallen Princesses series)
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Jack David Zipes
An American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and their social and political role in civilizing processes. According to Zipes, fairy tales “serve a meaningful social function, not just for compensation but for revelation: the worlds projected by the best of our fairy tales reveal the gaps between truth and falsehood in our immediate society.” His arguments are avowedly based on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and more recently theories of cultural evolution.
When feminists began -re-writing fairy tales in the 1960s and 1970s, one of their major purposes was to demonstrate that nobody really lives happily ever after, whether in fantasy or reality, and one of the important political assumptions was that nobody will ever live happily ever after unless we change not only fairy-tale writing but social and economic conditions that further exploitative and oppressive relations among the sexes, races, and social classes. This general purpose is still at the root of the best and most serious writing of fairy tales by women, and in recent years, some of the best women painters, artists, photographers, and filmmakers in North America have created unique works that question traditional representations of gender, marriage, work, and social roles.
In order to explain why nobody lives happily ever after, neither in fairy tales nor in real life, and why nobody should invest their time and energy believing in a “happily ever after” realm, I would like to make a few comments about Dina Goldstein’s provocative photographs that pierce the myth of happiness. This is not to say that we cannot be happy in our lives. Rather, I should like to suggest that the fairy-tale notion about happiness must be radically turned on its head if we are to glimpse the myths of happiness perpetuated by the canonical fairy tales and culture industry and to determine what happiness means.
Anyone who has seen Dina Goldstein’s unusual photographs knows that she not only deflowers fairy tales with her tantalizing images, but she also “de-disneyfies” them. Goldstein came to Canada from Israel when she was eight-years-old and had very little experience with the world of Disney films, books, artifacts, and advertisements. It was not until she was much older, when her three-year-old daughter was exposed to the Disney princesses, and when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer that she began to reflect about the impact of the Disneyfied fairy tales. As she has said in an interview with the Vancouver Sun, “I began to imagine Disney’s perfect princesses juxtaposed with real issues that were affecting women around me, such as illness, cancer, addiction and self-image issues. . . . Disney princesses didn’t have to deal with these issues, and besides we really never followed their life past their youth.”
Goldstein’s photo series, “Fallen Princesses,” first appeared on the Internet in the summer of 2009, and they have received global attention as artworks that comment critically on the Disney world and raise many questions about the lives women are expected to lead and the actual lives that they lead. Her photos are not optimistic. Rather, they are subtle, comic, and grotesque images that undo classical fairy-tale narratives and expose some of the negative results that are rarely discussed in public.
For instance, in her macabre portrayal of Snow White, she depicts the gruesome fate of a young woman, who is the spitting image...
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21st Century and Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Photographic Paper
Belle (from the Fallen Princesses series)
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Jack David Zipes
An American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and their social and political role in civilizing processes. According to Zipes, fairy tales “serve a meaningful social function, not just for compensation but for revelation: the worlds projected by the best of our fairy tales reveal the gaps between truth and falsehood in our immediate society.” His arguments are avowedly based on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and more recently theories of cultural evolution.
When feminists began -re-writing fairy tales in the 1960s and 1970s, one of their major purposes was to demonstrate that nobody really lives happily ever after, whether in fantasy or reality, and one of the important political assumptions was that nobody will ever live happily ever after unless we change not only fairy-tale writing but social and economic conditions that further exploitative and oppressive relations among the sexes, races, and social classes. This general purpose is still at the root of the best and most serious writing of fairy tales by women, and in recent years, some of the best women painters, artists, photographers, and filmmakers in North America have created unique works that question traditional representations of gender, marriage, work, and social roles.
In order to explain why nobody lives happily ever after, neither in fairy tales nor in real life, and why nobody should invest their time and energy believing in a “happily ever after” realm, I would like to make a few comments about Dina Goldstein’s provocative photographs that pierce the myth of happiness. This is not to say that we cannot be happy in our lives. Rather, I should like to suggest that the fairy-tale notion about happiness must be radically turned on its head if we are to glimpse the myths of happiness perpetuated by the canonical fairy tales and culture industry and to determine what happiness means.
Anyone who has seen Dina Goldstein’s unusual photographs knows that she not only deflowers fairy tales with her tantalizing images, but she also “de-disneyfies” them. Goldstein came to Canada from Israel when she was eight-years-old and had very little experience with the world of Disney films, books, artifacts, and advertisements. It was not until she was much older, when her three-year-old daughter was exposed to the Disney princesses, and when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer that she began to reflect about the impact of the Disneyfied fairy tales. As she has said in an interview with the Vancouver Sun, “I began to imagine Disney’s perfect princesses juxtaposed with real issues that were affecting women around me, such as illness, cancer, addiction and self-image issues. . . . Disney princesses didn’t have to deal with these issues, and besides we really never followed their life past their youth.”
Goldstein’s photo series, “Fallen Princesses,” first appeared on the Internet in the summer of 2009, and they have received global attention as artworks that comment critically on the Disney world and raise many questions about the lives women are expected to lead and the actual lives that they lead. Her photos are not optimistic. Rather, they are subtle, comic, and grotesque images that undo classical fairy-tale narratives and expose some of the negative results that are rarely discussed in public.
For instance, in her macabre portrayal of Snow White, she depicts the gruesome fate of a young woman, who is the spitting image...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cinder (from the Fallen Princesses series)
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Jack David Zipes
An American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Not-So-Little Red Riding Hood (from the Fallen Princesses series)
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Jack David Zipes
An American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rapunzel (from the Fallen Princesses series)
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Jack David Zipes
An American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Beauty (from the Fallen Princesses series)
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Jack David Zipes
An American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Snowy (from the Fallen Princesses series)
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Jack David Zipes
An American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Headless
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
At last! The veil has been lifted on Barbie’s emotional distress and Ken’s genuine sexual interests. In her photographic series In the Dollhouse, Vancouver-based artist Dina Goldstei...
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21st Century and Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Photographic Paper
Passed Out
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
At last! The veil has been lifted on Barbie’s emotional distress and Ken’s genuine sexual interests. In her photographic series In the Dollhouse, Vancouver-based artist Dina Goldstei...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Haircut
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
At last! The veil has been lifted on Barbie’s emotional distress and Ken’s genuine sexual interests. In her photographic series In the Dollhouse, Vancouver-based artist Dina Goldstei...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Photographic Paper
The Dream
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
At last! The veil has been lifted on Barbie’s emotional distress and Ken’s genuine sexual interests. In her photographic series In the Dollhouse, Vancouver-based artist Dina Goldstei...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Photographic Paper
Dining Alone
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
At last! The veil has been lifted on Barbie’s emotional distress and Ken’s genuine sexual interests. In her photographic series In the Dollhouse, Vancouver-based artist Dina Goldstei...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Photographic Paper
Bathroom Mirror
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
At last! The veil has been lifted on Barbie’s emotional distress and Ken’s genuine sexual interests. In her photographic series In the Dollhouse, Vancouver-based artist Dina Goldstei...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Photographic Paper
Breakfast
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
At last! The veil has been lifted on Barbie’s emotional distress and Ken’s genuine sexual interests. In her photographic series In the Dollhouse, Vancouver-based artist Dina Goldstei...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Photographic Paper
Toilet and Tub
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
At last! The veil has been lifted on Barbie’s emotional distress and Ken’s genuine sexual interests. In her photographic series In the Dollhouse, Vancouver-based artist Dina Goldstei...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
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Photographic Paper
The Affair
By Dina Goldstein
Located in Montreal, Quebec
At last! The veil has been lifted on Barbie’s emotional distress and Ken’s genuine sexual interests. In her photographic series In the Dollhouse, Vancouver-based artist Dina Goldstei...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dina Goldstein Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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