During his lifetime, Jimmy DeSana was known for his striking, sometimes erotic, often thrillingly strange photographs. When he died of AIDS-related causes in 1990, at age forty, he left his estate to the artist Laurie Simmons. On the occasion of Jimmy DeSana: Submission at the Brooklyn Museum, his first major solo exhibition, Simmons recalls her friendship with one of New York’s counterculture icons.
When did you first meet Jimmy?
