Bruce Gilden’s Mardi Gras – The New Yorker

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Bruce Gilden’s Mardi Gras

Gilden’s images from New Orleans in the seventies and eighties find confrontations of character and power amid Carnival’s topsy-turvy social order.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/bruce-gildens-mardi-gras

We find here, of course, the mirth of the party, though less than we might expect, as well as many photos in which the “underdog”—Gilden’s preferred subject—has his day

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