Furman S. Baldwin is an American photographer, best known for the picture he took in 1947 of his two-year-old son and two neighborhood girls, commonly called Il Bacio (The Kiss).
In this photo, one of the neighbors seems to look a bit jealous because the boy is not kissing her.
The boy in the picture is Baldwin's son, Furman Stewart Baldwin, Jr.

A native of Buffalo, New York

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, Furman S. Baldwin is the son of Furman O. Baldwin, one of the renowned photographic pioneers of the American Colony in Jerusalem.

Furman S. Baldwin served as a navy pilot in the Pacific theater during World War II

World War II

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 and served as a civilian for the Department of Defense

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 at The United States Military Academy at West Point until his retirement in 1985.

He currently resides in Millbrae, California

Millbrae, California

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with his wife, Margaret.