The Veiled Pact Between the Story and the Photography

Abstract

The veiled is analyzed as a rhetorical figure or allegorical resource that in photography, as in narrative, acts with the intention of intensifying an elliptical language to hide, conceal or evoke meanings. The article reviews how Katherine Mansfield’s writing carries veiled forms of persuasion to make the viewer participate, in a subsumed way, in the narratives of omission. In photography, what is veiled will be a blind field in the sense that it is not visible in the image, but acts by expanding meanings beyond the frame. The veiled, finally, will be the stylistic resource that articulates an artistic project, entitled About Mansfield, that alternates photography and text to develop mechanics of identity construction, in such a way that the photographic image is linked to a story that serves as the backbone of the texts from the Diaries by Mansfield. The aim is to generate a visual syntax that acts with veiled parameters, revealing reductionist patterns around women.