a catalogue of kisses

This is what kissing would look like if people ever live in space.

Image by Weegee.

A sad farewell kiss from 1941. The Hart Amsterdam Museum shows parting lovers as the men are taken off to the German work camps.

A naked kiss, spotted on an art book in Copenhagen’s Glyptotek

Gone with the wind, and the moment…

More political kissing courtesy of the Guardian, this one caught at the strikes in Chile

Elvis with the mysterious Barbara, snapped by Alfred Wertheimer

Another kiss captured unaware in Myscha’s “Lovers” project

Some old-fashioned lovin’ by Howard Hawks

The kiss of life, caught by Rocco Morabito, won the 1958 Pulitzer prize

Breaking my black & white rule for this kiss… a moment captured in the Vancouver riots by Richard Lam.

Kiss by the Hotel de Ville - a moment of spontaneity captured by Robert Doisneau

Real people, real kiss, by Diana Karpowicz

Two Lovers by Mathew West

A personal favourite: hungry, needy, desperate kisses from Moscow

(Image: Andrei Biezoudlanikov)

Platonic kiss

(Image: Hans Staub)