French photographer Doisneau was working on a photo spread about Paris lovers for 'Life' magazine when he spotted Francois Bornet and boyfriend Jacques Carteaud near the school where they were studying theatre. They agreed to pose for the seemingly spontaneous photo in 1950. Romantics like to believe the young lovers were captured in a spontaneous moment of bliss, but the pose was staged. In an interview in 1992, Doisneau said: "I would have never dared to photograph people like that. Lovers kissing in the street, those couples are rarely legitimate." The image stayed in the archives of the photo agency where Robert Doisneau worked for more than 30 years before it was snapped up by a print company.
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