An Iconography of Chance – 99 Photographs of the Evanescent South - Hardcover

"Exactly in the Indeterminable lies the secret of Tav Falco's photographs of the disappearing South. What they hint at--the underlying terror, absurdity, and humor of the American experiment--is as important as what they portray. Falco lures the spectator, the viewer, into a kind of truth that is the enemy of the merely factual."--Richard Pleuger, author of How Movies Are Made Exactly in the Indeterminable lies the secret of Tav Falco s photographs of the disappearing South. What they hint at the underlying terror, absurdity, and humor of the American experiment is as important as what they portray. Falco lures the spectator, the viewer, into a kind of truth that is the enemy of the merely factual. --Richard Pleuger, author of How Movies Are Made" "An Iconography of Chance is all about Tav Falco keeping his promise: a book about crossroad meetings, a mixture of glory and defeat, an exotic guide to the Deep South. Tav Falco is an explosive cocktail for those heading to the asylum: Proust kills Faulkner, Mozart reincarnates in Jerry Lee Lewis, Freud understands Robert D. Lee, the Danube meets the Mississippi. All is gone in the wind like a bunch of tumbleweed, drunk and disorderly. Tav Falco embodies the free spirit of someone who has nothing to lose. Forever on the move, forever in exile, forever lucid." --Paulo Nozolino "An Iconography of Chance" is all about Tav Falco keeping his promise: a book about crossroad meetings, a mixture of glory and defeat, an exotic guide to the Deep South. Tav Falco is an explosive cocktail for those heading to the asylum: Proust kills Faulkner, Mozart reincarnates in Jerry Lee Lewis, Freud understands Robert D. Lee, the Danube meets theMississippi. All is gone in the wind like a bunch of tumbleweed, drunk and disorderly. Tav Falco embodies the free spirit of someone who has nothing to lose.Forever on the move, forever in exile, forever lucid. --Paulo Nozolino" ""An Iconography of Chance" is all about Tav Falco keeping his promise: a book about crossroad meetings, a mixture of glory and defeat, an exotic guide to the Deep South. Tav Falco is an explosive cocktail for those heading to the asylum: Proust kills Faulkner, Mozart reincarnates in Jerry Lee Lewis, Freud understands Robert D. Lee, the Danube meets the Mississippi. All is gone in the wind like a bunch of tumbleweed, drunk and disorderly. Tav Falco embodies the free spirit of someone who has nothing to lose. Forever on the move, forever in exile, forever lucid." --Paulo Nozolino

Countercultural musician, performer, filmmaker, and photographer Tav Falco was born and raised in the American South. In An Iconography of Chance, Falco guides us through the hometowns and gravel roads of this region and introduces us to the backwoods spiritual sanctuary that he knows so well. This limited edition book offers nearly one hundred arresting photographs of roadside icons in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.