{"product_id":"anonymous-allen-ginsberg-peter-orlovsky-and-janine-pommy-vega","title":"[ANONYMOUS.] Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Janine Pommy Vega.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eThe Beats in Bed\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[ANONYMOUS.]\u003c\/strong\u003e Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Janine Pommy Vega. \u003ci\u003eNew York?, home developed. C.\u003c\/i\u003e 1960.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo gelatin silver prints (both 125 x 175 mm);  minimal foxing to both prints, and slight foxing to verso; image sizes 110 x 165 mm and 120 x 170 mm; both in white wood window mount frames (210 x 260 x 40 mm)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo extraordinary and unique photographs of Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Janine Pommy Vega in bed.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAllen Ginsberg met Peter Orlovsky in December 1954 in San Francisco, when the latter was working as a model for the painter Robert LaVigne. Ginsberg broke off his relationship with Sheila Boucher in order to pursue a more serious one with Orlovsky. Their relationship, remaining open partially due to Orlovsky’s bisexuality, became a lifelong partnership which they referred to as a ‘marriage sealed by vows’. With Ginsberg’s encouragement Orlovsky began writing in 1957 while they were living in Paris. The following year, they moved into an apartment in New York’s East Village.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFellow beat poet Janine Pommy Vega also moved into the apartment for a time in 1960, just after having graduated from high school aged eighteen. These photographs of the three of them in bed together are deeply personal testaments to their relationships as well as a reflection of shifting attitudes towards sex and sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe many white spotted markings (possibly from dust on the photographic negative during the printing process), a misalignment of one of the images, and shallow tonal range, suggest an unprofessional printing process. Due to the nature of these photographs, it appears that they were developed privately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125279\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63736806146425,"sku":"2125279","price":10000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125279.jpg?v=1781283631","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/anonymous-allen-ginsberg-peter-orlovsky-and-janine-pommy-vega","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}