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ps1074 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 06:05 AM
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Classic photograph sold for 200,000 USD
The woman in Robert Doisneau's classic photograph of a couple stealing a passionate kiss on a Paris street sold her original print for more than $200,000 US at an auction on Monday.

The print of The Kiss at City Hall had been expected to fetch between $19,600 and $26,000, according to Paris' Artcurial Briest Pulain le Fur auction house.



http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2005/04/25/1012503-ap.html
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Laughing Mirror Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 06:10 AM
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1. purchased by an unidentified Swiss collector

Frenchman Doisneau was working on a photo spread about Paris lovers for Life magazine when he spotted Mrs Bornet and boyfriend Jacques Carteaud near the school where they were studying theatre.

Romantics like to believe the young lovers were captured in a spontaneous moment of bliss, but the pose was staged...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4481789.stm
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maddiejoan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 06:21 AM
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2. ha ha
And I totally just got it for free by dragging it to my desktop!

1 4M TEH HAXXORZ!!!!

kthxbye
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