Kiss For Sale

Findlaw reports that Francoise Bornet, the adult woman inwards Robert Doisneau's famous photograph of spontaneous honey inwards Paris, has decided to auction her master copy impress 55 years later it was taken. Bornet says Doisneau (who died inwards 1994) sent her an master copy re-create of the photograph days later it was taken inwards 1950. In the photo, the lovers kiss, oblivious to Paris traffic together with passers-by.

This photograph has an interesting legal history. In 1993 Bornet unsuccessfully sued Doisneau for U$18,500 together with a per centum of sales of copies of the photo. Now Bornet seeks to reclaim her identity equally good equally fiscal gains yesteryear selling the 1950 black-and-white master copy print, which bears the photographer's postage stamp on the back. The photograph volition survive auctioned Apr 25 at the Artcurial Briest Pulain le Fur auction menage inwards Paris together with is expected to sell for betwixt euro 15-20,000. The Rapho photograph agency, Doisneau's employer when he took the picture, owns the rights to the photo. Bornet himself never received royalties from the reproduction together with tin flaming entirely sell her photograph for person use.

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