SubmissionThis is the first overview of the work of Jimmy DeSana, a pioneering yet underrecognized figure in New Yorks downtown art, music, and film scenes during the 1970s and 1980s. The book situates DeSanas 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. DeSanas first major project was 101

which capture the introspection and inquisitiveness of early adulthood while paying tribute to the ultimate mystery of their subject’s consciousness

and discrimination

” I was 26 years old back then

faceless people will rise…”

and people

The Hotel now manifests as a book for the first time in English (it was previously included in the book Double Game)

featuring photographs by — Joselito Verschaeve

I was restless (and I still am)

this gathers his most iconic images

along with many unpublished works to provide the most complete and comprehensive monograph charting his career

“These photographs are an organic response to an experience that is at the same time the most unique and the most universal of experiences: the birth of a child

The Lizard is a strange and uncanny atlas of the familiar transformed into the unfamiliar through the vision of a stranger who's only looking for some sort of home