Description
Cover: hardcover, 212 pages
Publisher: Artvoices Art Books 2017
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0998748420
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 0.8 x 12.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (please note this is an oversized book and will ship US Media Mail)
From the start of her photographic journey in New Orleans, Elmore searched for Mardi Gras Indians, those feathered and beaded icons of the city’s African American identity, and perhaps the most mysterious and elemental of all the city’s culture bearers. “Let’s Go Get ‘Em”—the cry of battle in which Indians compete to be the prettiest, and a chant within the ritual enacted whenever they “mask”—denotes the collection of Elmore’s photographs that trace what began as pure fascination with Mardi Gras Indians and grew into lasting friendships that inspired her own artistic ideals. – from the publisher