Frenzy: In the Days Before Social Distancing (5 Images)

I always found the photographers as interesting as--if not more than--their static, masked, posing subjects, so that it's long seemed to me the ubiquitous porcelain-faced mime images which are synonymous with contemporary (ie, post 1980) Venetian Carnevale not only don't give an accurate sense of what the experience is (or was) actually like, they miss the most lively part of it (all images: 28 February 2014).