Originally published in 1974 by the Jargon Society and long out of print, The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater is the best-known body of Meatyard’s work. At once comic and tragic, grotesque and beautiful, the series of 64 images features his wife, Madelyn, in a hag’s Halloween mask, together in each with a different friend or relative in a transparent mask. The critic and scholar James Rhem worked closely with the archives in the estate and with the surviving family members to reconstruct Meatyard’s original, unrealized intentions for the publication: this revised edition has the correct sequencing of the images and, above all, the missing captions, reproduced in his own handwriting as white type knocked out of a black background, as he had instructed. Every surviving participant was interviewed, and the book includes a critical essay and extensive background information. Accompanying the album are 40 more figurative works that give it a context and explore important themes in his work: an important rediscovery in the history of American photography.