Irina ionesco biography

Irina Ionesco(1930-2022) .
Irina Ionesco (3 September 1930 – 25 July 2022) was a French photographer.
Irina Ionesco, born in Paris 1930, is a Romanian/French photographer and media personality/celebrity, mother of Eva Ionesco.

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Irina Ionesco

Irina Ionesco - Contortionist, painter and photographer

Irina Ionesco was born in Paris on 3rd September 1930. Her parents came from Romania, her father was a violinist and her mother a trapeze artist, and at the age of four, little Irina was sent to Romania and placed in the care of relatives who worked as circus performers. When the Soviet Union invaded Romania, Ionesco returned to Paris at the age of 15, where she performed as a contortionist for seven years. She began her artistic career as a painter before increasingly turning to photography in the 1960s. In 1974, her first exhibition at the Nikon Gallery in Paris was a great success, quickly followed by further exhibitions all over the world and numerous publications in magazines. For ten years, she shared her life with the Dutch painter, sculptor and poet Corneille, who had co-founded the CoBra artists' group.

Pictures of her daughter made Irina Ionesco world-famous

Irina Ionesco had her only child in 1965, a daughter, Eva Ionesco, who became the artist's best-known and most controversial model. From the

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Gothic Icon

and “grande dame” of photographic goth erotica, (way before the “Sisters of Mercy” became a musical icon of Goth), Irina Ionesco is almost the fountainhead of Goth imaging. Although, I doubt that was her intent in 1970. Her often controversial black-and-white works are still considered edgy. If that’s the right word. But you have to put them in the context of the time period to really appreciate the progressiveness of the work. Using only a Nikon F Photomic camera and some tungsten lighting, (which she used throughout her career), she carved a path of seeing in a unique way.

Irina Ionesco – From Circus to Fashion

Born in 1930, the boa tattoo on her leg and another on her hand, is at odds with the era she inhabited. From a circus girl to a cabaret dancer, her unschooled shooting brought her almost instant notoriety in the 1970s. Irina Ionesco is mostly known for erotic stills of her daughter, from age four to 11. Certainly as controversial then as today. Really no more so than America’s own Sally Mann. And

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IRINA IONESCO
André Laude

Bernard Letu Editeur, 1979

With dedication and signature of Irina Ionesco. Text in French and English by André Laude, biography, bibliography, photobook by Irina Ionesco. First edition. Good condition, Softcover (cm 26×21), no inscriptions, pages lightly tanned at edges, clean text (21×26 cm), pp 77, illustrated throughout in black and white, with numerous nudes and erotic photographs.

Irina Ionesco is a French photographer born in Paris. She painted for many years before finally discovering photography and became known chiefly for her erotic photography and most controversially for using her daughter as a child model.From the age of just four to sixteen 15 her parents sent her to Romania where she was raised by a family of circus performers.In 1965 she gave birth to her only child, Eva Ionesco whom she would later feature somewhat controversially in her work.

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