Consisting of some thirty works drawn from LACMA’s permanent collection, Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture explores the way in which photographers—costumed, masked, wigged, made-up or transformed through technique or situation—present their fictional, or “Other Selves.” Photographers whose work is featured include Cindy Sherman, Yasumasa Morimura, Claude Cahun and Pierre Molinier, as well as nineteenth-century photographers Roger Fenton and Francis Frith, who dressed in authentic clothing from faraway places to associate visually with the places where they practiced their “documentary” photography.