{"product_id":"21361-ginsberg-allen-corso-gregory-a-modest-portrait-1961","title":"Ginsberg, Allen. (1926–1997) \u0026 Corso, Gregory. (1930–2001) A Modest Portrait, 1961","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eUnusual gelatin silver print, showing two portraits of a smiling Ginsberg and fellow Beat poet Gregory Corso posing in the nude in Tangier, ca. 1961. Each image 10.6 x 8.25 inches (27 x 21 cm.), the sheet 16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm.), with the Allen Ginsberg Trust stamp with Trustee Bob Rosenthal's signature and edition notation 2\/25 in pencil on verso. Photographed originally by Peter Orlovsky, Ginsberg's longtime parter and fellow poet ca. 1961; printed after 1997.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAn amusing interview transcript of Ginsberg and Corso talking about this series of images, records the history as follows:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eGC: Now this picture of you and me bare-assed here, holding, we’re both holding our..\u003cbr\u003eAG: Who took the picture?\u003cbr\u003eGC: Peter (Orlovsky)\u003cbr\u003eAG: Peter?\u003cbr\u003eGC: Yeah. Now this was your room (in the ward)  but it looks like Auschwitz!..\u003cbr\u003eAG: …shower.\u003cbr\u003eGC: ..shower-room, man, very spooky backdrop!\u003cbr\u003eA: It’s a white-washed wall in a little tiny concrete room in Tangier.\u003cbr\u003eGC: Yeah in Tangier, On the roof, right?\u003cbr\u003eAG:  Now what.. No, not on the roof, but, remember the little porch we had and the cubicle room?\u003cbr\u003eGC: It was on the roof that cubicle room?\u003cbr\u003eAG: Yeah, well a little elevated..  yes, yes, elevated.\u003cbr\u003eGC: Ok.\u003cbr\u003eAG: On the house.\u003cbr\u003eGC:  And see that thing I’m wearing around my neck?  That is an ancient ..King Minos, a Cretan, from Knossos, Ancient Crete. It was made out of some kind of green alabaster with little green kuklos (circles) in it . It was used.. yeah, it was used  for knitting, weaving.. or darning or something, in those days. Somebody found it in the field and I bought it for 500 drachmas –beautiful!  – I gave it away to Bill Barker.. So nice eh?  I had that.\u003cbr\u003eGC: So what I’d like to do is to put (up) the naked one if we can.\u003cbr\u003eAG: Yeah, well, we’ll have that.\u003cbr\u003eGC: For kicks,  I think that..\u003cbr\u003eAG: That’s the modest, and the other one’s the immodest, portrait\u003cbr\u003eGC: The modest and the immodest, but (its difficulty is) we’re never going to look like that again, Allen.\u003cbr\u003eAG: Now how come we did that?\u003cbr\u003eGC: We got no hips, Allen!  Well, I set it up. I said “Al, (about Peter), why doesn’t he take us naked?\u003cbr\u003eAG: Really?\u003cbr\u003eGC: Yeah, why not?  So we went bare-assed.\u003cbr\u003eAG: Uh-huh. Well, how did we do that? I always wonder what situation..\u003cbr\u003eGC:   We went out..  See, people would think that you and I were doing something, man.  Why can’t two poet friends take a picture of themselves naked? – Because, it was so hot. I was walking around many times in my underwear there. So.. I said “lets take it bare-assed?”.  Because, remember, the first one was our…our family jewels hangin’ out, ok?  (That’s one you should put in there, in a show…)\u003cbr\u003eAG: Apparently it’s a postcard now!\u003cbr\u003eGC:  Yeah, it’s a postcard. And I’m the man who said..  what is it?  –  “Human Fig Leaves!”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093779042463,"sku":"21361","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Ginsberg_AllenCorso_GregoryAModestPortrait21361a.jpg?v=1737401282","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/21361-ginsberg-allen-corso-gregory-a-modest-portrait-1961","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}