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 ... Read moreMade 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.
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