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Jimmy DeSana: Submission
Jimmy DeSana: Submission
DELMONICO BOOKS/BROOKLYN MUSEUM

The first comprehensive book on the surreal, queer and humorous photographic art of Jimmy DeSana, a central figure in New York’s art and music scenes of the 1970s and ’80s

Hbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 176 pgs / 240 color. | 11/29/2022 | In stock
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Jimmy DeSana: Salvation
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A previously unpublished artist’s book by the innovative photographer, conceptualized shortly before his untimely death

Pbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 48 pgs / 44 color. | 5/21/2024 | Awaiting stock
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Jimmy DeSana: SalvationJimmy DeSana: Salvation

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A meditation on loss, death and nothingness, Salvation is a previously unpublished artist's book by Jimmy DeSana (1949–90), which he conceptualized shortly before his death from AIDS-related illness. While he was unable to fully realize Salvation in his lifetime, he dictated instructions to his longtime friend, the artist and photographer Laurie Simmons, for completing the publication on his deathbed. Due to her recuperative efforts, DeSana’s last major work is now available for the first time.
The volume displays 44 of the artist’s late photographic abstractions, images of relics, body parts, flowers and fruits altered through collage and darkroom manipulations. Both intimate and otherworldly, the works in Salvation function as a quiet counterpoint to the majority of the work generated in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which tended to favor bold political statements.



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Paperback, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 48 pgs / 44 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2024 p. 112   

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Jimmy DeSana: SubmissionJimmy DeSana: Submission

Published by DelMonico Books/Brooklyn Museum.
Edited with text by Drew Sawyer. Preface by Anne Pasternak. Epilogue by Laurie Simmons.

This is the first overview of the work of Jimmy DeSana, a pioneering yet underrecognized figure in New York’s downtown art, music and film scenes during the 1970s and 1980s. The book situates DeSana’s work and life within the countercultural and queer contexts in the American South as well as New York, through his involvement in mail art, punk and No Wave music and film, and artist collectives and publications.
DeSana’s first major project was 101 Nudes, made in Atlanta during the city’s gay liberation movement. After moving to New York in 1973, DeSana became immersed in queer networks, collaborating with General Idea and Ray Johnson on zines and mail art, and documenting the genderqueer street performances of Stephen Varble.
By the mid-1970s, DeSana was a fixture in New York’s No Wave music and film scenes, serving as portraitist for much of the period’s central figures and producing album covers for Talking Heads, James Chance and others. His book Submission, made with William S. Burroughs, humorously staged scenes out of a S&M manual that explored the body as object and the performance of desire. DeSana was also an early adopter of color photography, creating his best-known series, Suburban, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This body of work explores relationships between gender, sexuality and consumer capitalism in often humorous, surreal ways. After DeSana became sick as a result of contracting HIV, he turned to abstraction, using experimental photographic techniques to continue to push against photographic norms.



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DelMonico Books/Brooklyn Museum

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Hardcover, 9 x 11.75 in. / 176 pgs / 240 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2022 p. 33   

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