Jimmy De Sana: Suburban Color Sex Pictures

Jimmy De Sana, Marker Cones, 1982 Courtesy of Wilkinson GalleryEncountering Jimmy De Sana’s colour photos from the late 1970s and early 1980s is like opening the wrong door at a party and discovering something you’re not meant to see. Nude bodies in peculiar positions. Everything bathed in an unreal light. Lurid green. Sex shop red. Colours from another world. The woman in Leaves stands defiantly, one foot on each side of the bath rim, her neck noosed to the shower rail, clad in no...