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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Allan Barnes + Ulorin Vex

08.02.10

Allan Barnes makes tintypes, a photographic process from the late 19th century. These are some images via the wet-plate collodion process with my favorite model, the gorgeous Ulorin Vex, as the subject.

There’s a post on Allan Barnes’ tintypes on the Coilhouse blog over here. Below the cut are just a couple more of his photos that I like:

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Tags: art nudes, black and white, tintypes, ulorin vex, vintage, vintage undergarments

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Vintage Image of the Day

01.13.10

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Tags: vintage, vintage undergarments

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