The model, the poster and 3,000 women

A documentary

Published on June 23, 2004 By Sally jacobs In Personal Relationships

I watched this documentary last night and for some reason I couldn't stop watching it, I wanted to but I couldn't. I'm not a huge fan of art, I appreciate it but I don't claim to know a great deal about it. This picture
Link is called L'Enfant, photographed by a company called Athena, it was their best selling picture of the 1980's, and still is a well remembered piece, remembered mostly for the simplicity of the picture. It is a man holding a baby. SImple, huh. Adam Perry the model in question, held this baby, less than an hours work, and won himself into so many womens hearts, he didn't just sell that picture, he sold an image. The image of a caring, loving man, looking into the eyes of this child. Women everywhere bought it, not the picture, the image, 3,000 to be exact, hehe!

Spencer Rowell, the actual photographer of this picture, made alot of money from this picture, more money than he knew what to do with. Adam Perry was bitter about this, he was simply paid his modelling fee, which was a few hundred pound at most. Little did either of them know just how much money this picture would make over the years. It soon became Athena's best piece, selling millions of copies world wide. Spencer Rowell may have got the money, but Adam still had the image. Thousands of young girls bought this picture, and fell in love with the man. Buying into the image he was selling them. It may have kick started his career, but he was more interested in the women that this picture brought him interest from. Adam Perry claims to have slept with more than 3,000 women. That's one different woman, every one and a half days for fifteen years. He had a career in a world dominated by women, he was surrounded by them, and his work was well known, so meeting and finding women wasn't that difficult for him. He was the perfect man. If you only judged him from that one image.

What is it about women that they will believe such things so easily. Most of the women he went to bed with, were young and impressionable. They truely believed he was the man from this picture, they believed the love he felt for this baby. They believed he was sensitive and considerate. Men were not always suggested to be like that in the media. The media the majority of the time presents you with a stereotype, because it's quick and easy, this picture went against that, presenting you with a sensitive man, surely that can't be the case! The sad thing is this man used it to get sex, so maybe it wasn't so far off that stereotype after all. He claims to have used what he had to get what he wanted. If I'm honest i don't actually blame him for that, I don't agree with what he did at all, I think that he must have some issues to be proud of the fact that he's slept with 3,000 women, but at that time, he wanted sex, and he went out and got it, under false pretenses, maybe, but he never went out and lied to these women, the picture did that for him. Women in the documentary claimed that years later after maturing and realising that Adam would make a fantasic lover for a short period of time, he would not be the man they wanted to have their children. Ironic isn't it.

So what happened to this great sex symbol? He is now a builder. He gave up his modelling career, as he was far more interested in just finding the next lass he could have sex with. It didn't make him happy, they spoke to him on the documentary. Though he is still proud of his 3,000 women. He reckons that, them 3,000 women have made him appreciate the one woman that is in his life now. It only took 3,000, wow, she must be a pretty special lady huh! That programme left me feeling sorry for the man that sold that loving image. Not because he made so little money from the piece that made him famous (not him, the image) but because when interviewed he just came across as incredibley sad, his greatest achievement in life, was not for being the face of the most famous image of the 1980's, it was for going to bed with 3,000 ladies. As he said, towards the end it became a joke on how easy it was to bed Adam Perry.

Comments (Page 2)

Sally jacobs

on Jun 27, 2004

Not to late at all Andy, thank you for the comments! It was a very clever documentary, they did exactly what the poster did, they encouraged you to judge him, encouraged you to think badly of him, and then showed you another element to your character, which just made you realise everything isn't as it appears! You ended up feeling sorry for this guy, and really why should you? Thanks for the insightful comment, and thanks for adding link, though that one still works for me, so don't know why he it doesn't work for others!

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