{"product_id":"jimmy-desana-submission-1980","title":"JIMMY DE SANA — SUBMISSION","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhotographs:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jimmy DeSana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e William S. Burroughs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Design:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paula Greif\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e FEY Verlag, Stuttgart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions: \u003c\/strong\u003e27 x 21.7 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First Edition — European Imprint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English \/ German\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Softcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 66 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3-88361-103-4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fine — exceptionally well preserved, with only very minor imperfections to the cover and a barely visible mark at the upper right corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSubmission\u003c\/em\u003e collects Jimmy DeSana’s staged black-and-white photographs made in New York between 1977 and 1978, introduced by William S. Burroughs in a publication situated between the literary underground and the downtown art world of the late 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeSana (1949–1990) was a key figure within New York’s East Village punk and No Wave milieu, photographing musicians, artists, and the broader downtown scene. With \u003cem\u003eSubmission\u003c\/em\u003e, however, his attention turns decisively toward the body itself, constructing a series of staged photographs in which nudity, bondage, and S\u0026amp;M become both subject and visual language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs move between the explicitly physical and the symbolic. DeSana’s controlled compositions transform the body into an architectural and psychological object, using restraint, concealment, repetition, and unusual positioning to create images that are as concerned with abstraction and formal tension as they are with eroticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrooks Adams credited the publication with helping usher in the confrontational, often homoerotic S\u0026amp;M photography that would become increasingly visible during the 1980s. Burroughs’ introduction further situates the work within a larger underground network in which literature, sexuality, photography, and downtown art culture intersected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy is the 1980 European first-edition imprint published by FEY Verlag in Stuttgart and printed in Germany, featuring bilingual English and German text and design by Paula Greif. Published under the name Jimmy de Sana, the volume has long been out of print and has become an important document of DeSana’s contribution to the visual culture of postwar New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work returned to renewed attention with DeSana’s first museum retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum in 2022–2023, further establishing \u003cem\u003eSubmission\u003c\/em\u003e as a significant publication within the history of experimental photography, queer visual culture, and the downtown New York underground.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"jimmy de sana","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67638237528352,"sku":null,"price":6500.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0878\/0202\/0128\/files\/jimmy-desana-submission-1980-cover-intermission.jpg?v=1791153339","url":"https:\/\/intermissionbooks.com\/products\/jimmy-desana-submission-1980","provider":"intermission books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}