fairy tales

Here is Annie Liebowitz's take on fairy tales, which I prefer to that of Dina Goldstein.  These photos were commissioned as a part of the Disney’s Dream Portraits Series, to celebrate Disney’s Year of a Million Dreams campaign.  

According to Walt Disney, "all cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures.  It is the very nature of fantasy and fable."   I see nothing wrong with exaggeration and neither does Liebowitz.  It also does not hurt that she is using beautiful celebrities to tell the tale.  

Gisele Bündchen as Wendy, Tina Fey as Tinkerbell, Mikhail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan

Rachel Weisz as Snow White



David Beckham as Prince Phillip from Sleeping Beauty

Roger Federer as King Arthur

Julie Andrews as Blue Fairy from Pinocchio & Abigail Breslin as Fira (Disney fairies)

Michael Phelps as merman, Julianne Moore as Ariel from Little Mermaid

Jessica Biel as Pocahontas

Fairy tales are enchanting and appealing.  A child in all of us can certainly appreciate the beauty of this work and we can all use a little bit of dreaming.