# Jimmy De Sana

> Jimmy DeSana was an American artist, and a key figure in the East Village punk art and No Wave scene of the late-1970s and early-1980s. DeSana's photography has been described as "anti-art" in its approach to capturing images of the human body, in a manner ranging from "savagely explicit to purely symbolic". DeSana was close collaborators with photographer Laurie Simmons and writer William S. Burroughs, who wrote the introduction to DeSana's self-published collection of photographs Submission. His work includes the album cover for the Talking Heads album More Songs about Buildings and Food as well as John Giorno’s LP, You’re The Guy I Want To Share My Money With.

*American photographer, 1950-1990*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Artist
- **Category:** Artists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1949-11-12
- **Died:** 1990-07-27
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

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