Irina Ionesco

11.02.10

Irina Ionesco is a French-Romanian photographer who began exhibiting her work in the mid-1970s. Her photography is dark, dramatic, erotic, and strongly evocative of a vintage aesthetic. I see lots and lots of influence from the 1920s – from the lavishly ornamental tendency in portraits from that period, where female subjects are arranged in feathers, furs, headdresses, high heels, and assorted paraphernalia, along with the era’s makeup, and the overall “sexy/macabre” vibe and vampish aesthetic of the ’20s.

There was a lot of controversy surrounding Ionesco’s nudes with her young daughter as the model. More on that below.

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Tags: 1920s, 1970s, black-and-white portraits, controversy, erotic, fetish, lolitaism, vintage, vintage undergarments

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