After Jimmy DeSana was diagnosed with AIDS in 1985, his provocative, intense, and sometimes playful photographs took a marked turn toward abstraction. To create Chair, DeSana photographed his Dalmatian curled up in an armchair, then printed his black-and-white negative through a color filter on direct-positive color photographic paper, creating this arresting negative image. Here, and in other works created in the same way, the familiar world seems unrecognizable—nothing is the same as it had been.