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Book - Hey Mister, Throw Me Some Beads! 

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, he found himself in "a pagan dream where you can be what you want to be." So Gilden became a regular, making seven trips down to the mayhem of Bourbon... 

Bruce Gilden 2015

BOOKCOVER. Hey Mister, Throw Me Some Beads! Kehrer, 2015. 

Bruce Gilden 1974

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1974. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1974

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1974. Mardi Gras. 

Bruce Gilden 1977

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. Early morning on Fat Tuesday... 

Bruce Gilden 1977

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1977. French Quarter. Man with crucifix... 

Bruce Gilden 1977

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1977. Mardi Gras. 

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. French Quarter. 

Bruce Gilden 1977

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1977. Mardi Gras. 

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1977

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1977. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1977

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1977. Mardi Gras. 

Bruce Gilden 1977

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1977. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1976

USA. New Orleans, LA. 1976. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. Fat Tuesday during Mardi Gras.... 

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. Fat Tuesday during Mardi Gras.... 

Bruce Gilden 1976

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1976. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1974

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1974. Mardi Gras. 

Bruce Gilden 1978

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1978. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1977

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1977. Mardi Gras. Police and masked... 

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. Mardi Gras. 

Bruce Gilden 1977

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1977. Mardi Gras. French Quarter.... 

Bruce Gilden 1974

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1974. Mardi Gras. 

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1974

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1974. Mardi Gras. 

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. 

Bruce Gilden 1977

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1977. Mardi Gras. 

Bruce Gilden 1982

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1982. Mardi Gras. 

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1977

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1977. Mardi Gras mask seen through... 

Bruce Gilden 1976

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1976. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1981

1981. Striped shirt. 

Bruce Gilden 1977

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1977. Mardi Gras. 

Bruce Gilden 1978

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1978. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1974

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1974. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1977

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1977. Mardi Gras. 

Bruce Gilden 1982

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1982. Mardi Gras. Coneheads. 

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. French Quarter, leather chaps... 

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1977

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1977. Mardi Gras. 

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. Leather mask and leashed Great... 

Bruce Gilden 1978

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1978. Mardi Gras.

Bruce Gilden 1982

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1982. ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training... 

Bruce Gilden 1975

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1975. French Quarter, Dumaine and... 

Bruce Gilden 1974

USA. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1974. Mardi Gras.
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