Iconography of Chance, An: 99 Photographs of the Evanescent South - Hardcover

Falco, Tav

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0983248087 ISBN 13: 9780983248088

Publisher: Solar Books, 2019

Synopsis

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. Falco's eye is drawn to that which others have overlooked, discarded, and rejected. Whether overtly or discreetly conjured, through his lens, these forlorn and adrift items-urban spectres, rural fables, and visual cliches-become living, breathing images that agitate the dark waters of the unconscious. In Falco's hands, the camera captures the very heart of the gothic South, a netherworld of dreams-and terrors. This multilingual book, which accompanies a traveling exhibition by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Music in New Orleans, will appeal to readers of English, Spanish, French, or German. Including a prologue by renowned photographer Alberto Garcia-Alix, An Iconography of Chance offers a magnetic portrait of a place as fascinating as it is disturbing.

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Review:

""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

"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 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"

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

About the Author:

Tav Falco is the leader of the psychedelic rock and roll group Tav Falco's Panther Burns. He currently resides in Vienna.

About this edition

• Publisher: Solar Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0983248087
• ISBN 13: 9780983248088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216