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'Hey Mister, throw me some beads!' ('Hey Mister, wirf mir ein paar Perlen zu') ist eine typische Redewendung des Mardi Gras, des berühmten Karneval von New Orleans. Bunte Perlenketten, Blechmünzen und anderer billiger Tand werden während der Mardi Gras-Paraden von den Festwagen in die Menge geworfen.
Bruce Gilden war noch ein junger Fotograf, als er 1974 erstmals den Mardi Gras besuchte. Es war die erste persönliche Reportage, die er außerhalb seiner Heimatstadt New York fotografierte. Schon bei seiner Ankunft in New Orleans wähnte er sich in 'einem heidnischen Traum, in dem jeder sein darf, was er will.' Von dem wilden Treiben auf der Bourbon Street angezogen wurde Gilden zu einem Stammgast und kehrte zwischen 1974 und 1982 insgesamt sieben Mal zurück. Die Energie, die Mentalität, die sozialen und kulturellen Gebräuche des Mardi Gras waren ihm fremd, doch fing er die Scharen feiernder Karnevalisten mit derselben Intensität und Prägnanz ein, die auch seine berühmten New Yorker Straßenfotografien kennzeichnen.

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Bruce Gilden was born in 1946 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. After taking photography classes at the School of Visual Arts, he embarked on his first major project: recording tourists and pleasure-seekers visiting Coney Island. Gilden is probably best known for his work on the streets of New York, focusing on the city’s characters and outsiders, but he has also spent many years on projects devoted on projects in Haiti, Japan, and Ireland. A member of Magnum Photos since 1998, Gilden has taken the genre of street photography and pushed it in new directions, documenting the essence of the people he sees and the social landscape through which they move.
His photographs have been widely exhibited in museums and galleries all over the world and are included in many permanent collections, including MoMA and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; La Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England; and the National Gallery of Canada.

Sophie Darmaillacq is a journalist and writer based in New York. She is married to Bruce Gilden.

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»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 Street between 1974 and 1982. The energy, the mentality, social / cultural mores of Mardi Gras were all new for Gilden, but he captured the carnival crowds with the same raw intensity and poignancy that characterize his most iconic New York street photographs.

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