Jimmy De Sana, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jimmy De Sana

American photographer, 1950-1990

Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1949

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 27-Jul-1990

Profession: photographer, artist, painter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Jimmy DeSana (November 12, 1949 – July 27, 1990) was an American artist, and a key figure in the East Village punk art scene of the 1970s and 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"., William S.
Burroughs wrote the introduction to his collection of photographs Submission which was self-published in 1980.
His work includes the album cover for the Talking Heads album More Songs about Buildings and Food.