Jimmy Desana

Salvation is a previously unpublished artist book by Jimmy DeSana, conceived shortly before his death in 1990. Featuring 44 late photographic abstractions, the work meditates on loss, death, and intimacy through manipulated images of relics, body parts, flowers, and fruit. Quiet and poetic, it offers a subtle counterpoint to the more overtly political HIV/AIDS-era art of the time.

Though DeSana never completed the project, he left detailed instructions with longtime friend Laurie Simmons, who helped realize the book after his death using his original maquette, slides, and archival materials. Long considered DeSana’s final major work, Salvation is published here for the first time in a form that closely honors his original vision.

 

Paperback

48 pages

30.3 x 35.9 cm