BRUCE GILDEN: HEY MISTER THROW ME SOME BEADS Darya Robine

Darya Robine

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

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as well as a selection of works from his key books

It is a tour through endangered life forms and ruined environments

BRUCE GILDEN: HEY MISTER THROW ME SOME BEADS Darya Robine"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,