Furman Stewart Baldwin
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Furman S. Baldwin (born 1922) is an American television and video producer and 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.[1]
A native of Buffalo, New York, 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. Following the war, Baldwin worked as Producer-Director at WBEN-TV in Buffalo, New York. In 1967, he left WBEN-TV to serve as Chief of the Audiovisual Production Branch of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was awarded the Department of Defense Thomas Jefferson Award for excellence in television production. Upon retirement was awarded the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal. Baldwin retired in 1985, but continued to write scripts for TV and film productions for both the US Government and commercial firms.
He currently resides in Millbrae, California. His wife Margaret Baldwin died in 2010.
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