Now Open... Jimmy DeSana: Submission. 📸⁠ ⁠ On the eve of what would have been his 73rd birthday, we are honored to share with you the first retrospective of a pioneering, yet underrecognized figure—Jimmy DeSana. ⁠ ⁠ Through this exhibition, you’ll come to know the facets of DeSana—the punk rebel, the queer visionary, the wry interpreter of consumerism and media cultures, and the sometime transgressor of “good taste” in photography. The project’s subtitle, Submission, is derived from DeSana’s 1980 book of often absurd photographs of S-M performances in domestic settings. In his introduction to that book, the author and punk icon William S. Burroughs wrote: “The very word ‘submission’ contains the paradox of wanting and not wanting.” DeSana’s photographic work investigates this paradox, along with the tensions between liberation and conformity, between being a subject and being an object.⁠ ⁠ Discover #JimmyDeSanaBkM and plan your visit through the link in our bio.⁠ ⁠ 📷 Jimmy DeSana (American, 1949–1990). Coat Hanger, 1979. Gelatin silver print, 9 9/16 × 6 5/8 in. (24.3 × 16.8 cm). Courtesy of the Jimmy DeSana Trust and P·P·O·W Gallery, New York. © Estate of Jimmy DeSana. (Photo: Allen Phillips)