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`L` Enfant...............Man and Baby......The £ 1million Poster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This iconic photograph melted the hearts of millions and was the last thing that teenage girls across the globe looked at before going to sleep at night.
The sepia-toned image called `L`Enfant` or `Man and Baby` became the biggest selling poster ever when launched in 1986.
It was an unprecedented hit for the former poster company Athena, made the photographer Spencer Rowell £1million and helped model Adam Perry sleep with more than 3,000 women.
Now it is to be sold at auction on Thursday at Bonhams in London as the first of a limited number of 50 hand-printed prints framed and signed by Rowell. They could fetch £3,000 each ? a small price for a piece of history.
The poster, produced for Athena, sold more than 5million copies ? not including millions of bootlegs.
It is even credited with launching the `New Man` ? someone who could show off his six-pack stomach but still be in touch with his feminine side.
Model Perry, 23 at the time of the shoot, was paid £100.
Voted `the world`s most promiscuous man` by GQ in 1997, he was last heard of renovating railway arches in South London.
The two-week-old baby, Stelios Havatsias, from Cyprus, was paid £32 for his part in the picture.
Athena went into receivership in 1994, closing its 150 shops.
Spencer Rowell, who lives in North London, said the photograph probably made him about £1million in today`s money.
He said: `I spent ten years trying to get it out of my life. It was a bit of an embarrassment, it being such a popular image, but over the last few years I`ve become quite proud of it.`
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MarkLevinson
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16 Jan 2007 08:18:51 GMT Report for Abuse
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Darn,
I wanted this to be dedicated to ALL the photographers in the forum....but absent minded ME :(:(:(:( |
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16 Jan 2007 08:56:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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The classic paternal poster, by Spencer Rowell; is portraying a hunky male gently cradling a young baby in his arms.
This photo looked to me very artificial but beautiful. |
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16 Jan 2007 09:15:03 GMT Report for Abuse
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If it is really TRUE
NO NO.....I never tell the truth!!! |
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16 Jan 2007 10:06:14 GMT Report for Abuse
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Marky
NO NO.....I never tell the truth!
Are you a politician? |
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16 Jan 2007 13:21:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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Achilles,
Are you a politician?
To some people, WORSE than that:):):):)
Infact I had a problem uploading yesterday and thought this wouldnt go as well...so forgot to put the caption on in a hurry....its the TRUTH
Edited By - MarkLevinson - 16 Jan 2007 13:23:23 G |
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