An Iconography of Chance
99 Photographs of the Evanescent South
Distributed for Elsinore Press
With a Prologue by Alberto Garcia-Alix
216 pages
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99 duotones
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8 1/2 x 11
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© 2015
Published by Elsinore Press
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
An Iconography of Chance
99 Photographs of the Evanescent South
99 Photographs of the Evanescent South
Review Quotes
Der Standard
“The heat, dust, country roads, old cars, gas stations, and diners in the middle of nowhere—Falco restores the meaning that these anchors of life, many of which have already vanished, once possessed in the American South.”
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.”
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.”
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