Masks, fiction and mise-en-scène in contemporary photography

Abstract

The article is a reflection on the use of the mask in photographic mise-en-scène, with emphasis on the act of masking and its meanings in contemporary photographic repertoire. As a conceptual reference I look to the series The Family Album by Lucybelle Crater and Ralph Eugene Meatyard. I realize that the author, the precursor of photography staged between the 60s and 70s, constructs his narratives on the threshold between reality and fiction, bringing to the present time a new challenging look at photography itself, operating through a path of opacity, that is to say, a mask.