for passages he had written in his book Eva, which included unflattering descriptions of Ionesco including the fact that she was the product of incest between her father, who was also her mother's father and therefore her grandfather, and her mother, who would have also been her half-sister. The suit was ultimately unsuccessful. A major part of Irina's work features lavishly dressed women, decked out in jewels, gloves, and other finery, but also adorning themselves with symbolic pieces such as chokers and other fetishistic props, posing provocatively, offering themselves partially disrobed as objects of sexual possession. Ionesco published numerous books featuring her works. In 2004 she published a memoir, L'œil de la poupée. Bibliography Liliacées langoureuses aux parfums d’Arabie (1974) Femmes sans tain (1975) Nocturnes (1976) Litanies pour une amante funèbre (1976) Le temple aux miroirs (1977) Cent onze photographies érotiques (1980) Le divan (1981) Les Passions (1984) The eros of Baroque (1988) Les immortelles (1991) Egypte chambre noire (1991) Méditerranéennes (1991, with Elisabeth Foch) Kafka ou le passant de Prague (1992) TransEurope (1994) Metamorphose de la Medusa (1995; model Hiromi Koide) Nudes (1996) Eva: Eloge De Ma Fille (2004) L'œil de la poupée (2004; with Marie Desjardins) R (2004) Le Japon Interdit (2004) Master Set, Edition YNOX Paris (2014), Sylvia Kristel, Edition YNOX Paris (2014), (Edition de tête) & (Edition courante) References External links 1930 births 2022 deaths French photographers French people of Romanian descent French women photographers French erotic photographers Photographers from Paris