Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Still More Explicit Photos of Carla Bruni Exist

CBN

German collector Gert Elfering is auctioning his entire 135-piece collection of nude celebrity photos at Christie’s in New York next month.

The auction, which takes place April 10, is expected to bring in over $4.5 million.

A part of that collection is this 1993 nude photograph of former model, turned First Lady of France, Carla Bruni.

Michel Comte, the photographer who snapped the now famous photo said of it:

“I have other nude photographs of Carla far more explicit, but I would never sell them,” Swiss photographer Michel Comte was quoted as saying in the daily Le Matin.

Photographer Comte said he had taken thousands of shots of Bruni in the 10 years they worked together, and the nude being auctioned was taken at the end of a session for Italian Vogue magazine.

Comte said he had no idea how the photo had ended up at auction - “I must have given it to someone as a gift,” he said.

I don’t think that photo is all that enticing. Especially compared to her nude photos in Max Magazine. She had more fire in her eyes in those photos.