BRUCE GILDEN: HEY MISTER THROW ME SOME BEADS Text by Bruce Gilden

Text by Bruce Gilden

most Chechens were not aware of the economic stakes of oil and they were considered peasants who were just good at throwing clods of earth at the Russian cavalry

Nevertheless

Author: Miron Zownir

mental disabilities and spontaneous abortions are just a few of the documented health effects on those living directly in the spray’s path

BRUCE GILDEN: HEY MISTER THROW ME SOME BEADS Text by 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, and other trinkets are passed out or thrown from the floats in the Mardi Gras parades to spectators lining the streets. In 1974, Bruce Gilden was a young photographer when he first went down to Mardi Gras to shoot his first personal essay away from his home city New York. But when Gilden first stepped foot in New Orleans,