L'enfant, better known as Man and Baby is a 1987 photographic

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depicting a shirtless male model (Adam Perry) holding a young baby. The image, conceived by Paul Rodriguez was photographed by Spencer Rowell and published in the 1980s by British company Athena Posters. The photograph was said to herald the "sensitive but sexy New Man" aesthetic. In 2011 the poster became part of the V&A Print collection and can be viewed in the Prints and Drawings Study Room level C. V&A, London and is published on p. 58 British Posters. Advertising, Art and Activism (Flood., C. V&A: 2012) In a 2004 British television documentary about ''L'Enfant'', ''The Model, the Poster and 3,000 Women'', Perry claimed that as a result of his poster fame he had slept with 3,000 women. The programme also identified the baby as Greek-Cypriot Stelios Havatzios. Stelios currently lives in

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, Cyprus with his family and works as a lawyer. In 2013, Havatzios appeared as the Mystery Guest on '' The Big Fat Quiz of the '80s''. Perry, who was paid £100 for the photo shoot, worked as a London-based carpenter in 2007. Senator

Josh Hawley Joshua David Hawley (born December 31, 1979) is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the junior United States senator from Missouri since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Hawley served as the 42nd attorney general of Mi ...

once hung the photo over his dorm room bed at

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