A print of one of the 1980s most iconic and cliched images has sold for over two thousand pounds reports the BBC
By photographer Spencer Rowell’s own admission, Man and Baby, or L’Enfant, is “a bit cheesy”. There’s a cute baby, but the eye is drawn to the buffed and muscular male specimen cradling said infant in his lap.
It made model Adam Perry a hit with the ladies, and a fortune for the photographer and the poster shop Athena, selling more than five million copies.
Twenty-one years after its release, at auction on Thursday, a print of the image went for £2,400 – considerably more than the price paid in the late 1980s by scores of students and young professionals keen to brighten up rented walls.