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 Photo of Nicolae Ionescu and his wife. | |
| Born |
November 1, 1903 Bucharest |
|---|---|
| Died | 1974, Bucharest |
Photography
Nicolae Ionescu (born 1903) worked first as a typographist in Bucharest. In 1927 he got employed in the Royal Army as a photographer and began photographing the city of Bucharest but also other places in the country. In order to follow the latest developments in photography he studied German and English. In 1928 he got married and used the dowry to acquire modern equipment for the photo laboratory. In 1930 he traveled to France and worked several months in the Lumiere factory in Lyon, and for a few months in Paris at Pathe Nathan.
Gallery
Academy Boulevard,1928
Brătianu Boulevard
Moşilor Fair, 1923-1925
Moşilor Fair, 1929. Entrance Kiosks
Moşilor Fair, 1923-1925
The Miraculous Wheel. Waiting for the Start. Moşilor Fair, 1932
Buying a Chicken at the Market, 1928
The Dâmboviţa River in front of the Central Covered Market
Stavropoleos Church, 1930
The Metropolitan Cathedral, 1923-1925
The National Theatre
The Queen Elisabeta Avenue, 1932
The Romanian Athenaeum, postcard, 1929
The Motorcar and the Ass, 1928
The Relics of Saint Demetrius, 1928
The Storck Museum
The Whitewashers, 1928
Women selling flowers at the Grand Market, 1929
Awards
The works of Nicolae Ionescu won the second place at the Exhibition of photographs in 1936, and ONT bronze plaque at the International Photography Exhibition in Bordeaux in 1957.
Legacy
His photographs of Bucharest from the 1920s and 1930s provide a valuable document of the city. After his death, his wife sold a large part of the negatives, and ultimately the entire collection to the municipal bookshop "Mihai Sadoveanu" and the Romanian Academy.
