5 iconic kisses in history: coverage from Reuters
If you’re looking for love this Valentine’s Day, you’ve come to the right place.
By Alice Rizzo | Feb 14, 2018
Whether you’re seeking romance, show-mance or bro-mance our library of stock photos includes iconic kisses from some of the world’s most passionate personalities. Go ahead, search to your heart’s content. To paraphrase the Beatles, we believe there’s nothing you can search that can’t be found and (apart from love) our library is all you need.
1.Charles Hamelin and Marianne St-Gelais
This year will be Hamelin’s fourth, and St-Gelais third games in Pyeongchang. Back in 2010, we snapped Hamelin passionately kissing Marianne St-Gelais as he celebrates his gold medal after the men’s 500 metres short track speed skating final at the Vancouver Olympics. Access Sports Content
2. Britney Spears & Madonna
Britney Spears (left) gets a kiss on the mouth from Madonna as they open the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards show, at Radio City Music Hall in New York, in this photo taken August 28, 2003.
From the Golden Globes to the BAFTAs to the Oscars, music award shows such as the Grammys, MTV Video Music Awards and American Music Awards, we have edits from the world’s biggest entertainment ceremonies.
3. Prince William & Kate Middleton
Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge kiss on the balcony at Buckingham Palace, watched by bridemaids Grace van Cutsem (L) and Margarita Armstrong-Jones and pageboy Tom Pettifer, aftr their wedding in Westminster Abbey, in central London April 29, 2011.
This year, on the 19th of May, we will be back on the royal carpet with a full coverage of Prince Harry and fiancee Meghan Markle live from St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.
4. Rodin “The Kiss”
A mile of string binds a version of the late French artist Auguste Rodin’s ‘The Kiss’ by Cornelia Parker in a new exhibition, ‘Days Like These’, at the Tate Britain, in London, February 25, 2003.
The Kiss is one of three full-scale versions made in Rodin’s lifetime.
5. Mikhail Gorbahev & Erich Honecker
In 1986, then Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev (left) congratulates the East German Leader Erich Honecker with a fraternal hug and kiss after Honecker’s re-election as General Secretary of the Communist Party Congress in East Berlin on April 21, 1986.
The socialist fraternal kiss was a special form of greeting between the statesmen of Communist countries. that proved the connection between Socialist states.
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