Mask in photography

As you are getting ready to put on your Carnival makeup, here is a motley panorama of masks; in other words, a look at a frequent motif in photography.

Procesion, Chalma, Mexico, 1984 © Graciela Iturbide
The world of masks lends itself to photographing: masquerades, carnivals, strange rituals in which masked figures turn into monsters with enormous lips, huge eyes, multicolored skin, or twisted...

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