Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, diana bobar, eva ionesco, fashion, irena ionesco, john berger, oil paintings, private property, sensuous marxism
I’m kind of blown away by these photos from French-Romanian photographer Irena Ionesco. That is to say, she was born in Paris, to Romanian immigrants, and spent her childhood in Constanta, Romania. Born in 1935, she’s most famous for her erotic nudes, as well as super ostentatious hyperdecadence in general. And, controversially, using her young daughter Eva in some of her (very eroticised) nudes – something that’s more than a little creepy even in today’s mass media fetishisation of childlike hairlessness. I’m reminded of John Berger’s book, ‘Ways of Seeing’, in which he partly discusses the differences between nakedness and nudity. I can’t find scans online, but this seems to be a fairly famous quote –
“Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.”
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Perhaps it’s the difference between a bare leg and skin coloured stockings(or even more so, nude toned fishnets? I’m seeing a fair amount of people wearing these and there’s something offputting about it – perhaps because I pre-emptively associate fishnets with accroutements of ‘dress-up nudity’, no matter what the colour. There’s also an interesting article on him here, which amusingly describes his brand of Marxism as ‘sensuous’, but also chronicles his interesting points on how oil paintings reinforce private property.
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Ionesco’s photos are, my favourite intersection of Romania, art and fashion today has to be the incredibly talented Diana Bobar, who I’ve been following for a couple of years now. She launched her own line last January, and seems like she can only go form strength to strength.
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