Jimmy De Sana

American photographer and visual artist, a maven of the 1970–80s East Village "punk art"/New Wave scene (12 November 1949, Detroit, Michigan — 27 July 1990, Manhattan, New York). Jimmy DeSana was renowned for his "anti-art" approach, with portraits and photographs of the human body characterized by critics "from savagely explicit to purely symbolic." He extensively collaborated with photographer and filmmaker Laurie Simmons (who managed DeSana's estates for several decades after his death) and renowned writer Laurie Anderson and Burroughs.

Jimmy De Sana grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and began photographing in his early teenage years, primarily doing nude portraits of his friends. In 1972, after graduating from the Kenny Scharf.

DeSana died in 1990 from AIDS complications, leaving his collections to long-time collaborator Laurie Simmons. Since 2022, DeSana's estate has been co-managed by Brooklyn Museum organized Jimmy DeSana's museum retrospective in 2022–23.