Jimmy DeSana Photographs 1977 - 79 in this weeks New - TopicsExpress



          

Jimmy DeSana Photographs 1977 - 79 in this weeks New Yorker: In this re-creation of a photography exhibition from 1980, portraits of nineteen-seventies scene-makers—William Burroughs, Ethel Scull, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol—are displayed as in magazine layouts, with groups of related images framed together. Some are candid party pictures; other sare more formally posed. None are as distinctive as the outrageous, erotic pictures that made DeSana a cult figure before he died, of AIDS, at the age of forty, in 1990, and which have recently gained a new following. But since nearly all of the subjects portrayed here are also long gone, the show assumes a touching memorial quality.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:33:49 +0000

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