This spectacular book of pictures and text reveals the New Orleans Mardi Gras in all its visible excitement and behind-the-scenes machinations.
Boisterous, flamboyant, raunchy, and mysterious to the public, Carnival has a hidden life known only to the New Orleanians who spend much of the previous year making it happen.
Brilliant color photographs by New Orleans photographer Mitchel L. Osborne cover the of 1970s of Carnival. Old photographs and engravings follow Mardi Gras from its beginnings in ancient spring rites to the recent past. An informative and delightful text by New Orleans writer Errol Laborde gives an authoritative account of the inner workings and traditions of the New Orleans Mardi Gras as well as a guide to the bewitching variety of Carnival events.
New Orleans: Picayune Press LTD., 1981.
Hardcover. Quarto. Gold colored hardcover with color pictorial dust jacket. 220 pages. Illustrated in color.