Snow White tableaux

Snow White, 1937, Walt Disney Productions

Snow White is a 19th century German fairy tale which is today known widely across the Western world. My photography class decided to recreate a scene from this fairy tale to create a  tableaux image. The apple in Snow White that represents poison is also a religious symbol. It represents a comparable story to that of Adam and Eve, where Eve is tempted by the forbidden fruit and is corrupted by her acceptance of the fruit. Jut like the Bible, Snow White is tempted by the poison apple and ultimately suffers for it. Just as Eve was warned against accepting the fruit, Snow White knows that she should not be talking to and accepting gifts from strangers. Her weakness for the apple results in a sleeping death, whereas for Eve, her acceptance of the fruit results in spiritual death. Instead of the apple, we decided to swap the fruit with an apple iphone. Phones can also represent temptation since our current society is constable on them.

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