BRUCE GILDEN

Hey Mister, throw me some beads!« is a phrase that is iconic in New Orleans' Mardi Gras street argot. Strings of beads, doubloons, a nd other trinkets are passed out or thrown from the floats in the Mardi Gras parades to spectators lining the streets. In 1974, Bruc e Gilden was a young photographer when he first went down to Mardi Gras to shoot his first personal essay away from his home city Ne w York.