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Jimmy DeSana American

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De Sana was a key figure in the East Village art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. His book Submission features gritty black-and-white photographs of S&M acts staged by De Sana and his friends for the camera. In 1979 he began to employ lurid color and dramatic lighting to tableaux that treated the human body as just another camera prop. This photograph of a nude model wearing a leather handbag over his head and a shoe as a codpiece is a humorous commentary on the fetish as both sexual totem and commodity.

Untitled, Jimmy DeSana (American, Detroit, Michigan 1949–1990 New York), Silver dye bleach print

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