Eva Ionesco Playboy 1976 Italian.131 Best Portable

Looking back at the Italian Playboy issue of 1976, it stands less as a landmark of modeling and more as a cautionary tale of the era's lack of safeguards for children in the media. Today, those images have been largely expunged from mainstream records, serving only as a grim reminder of a time when the boundaries of art were pushed at a significant human cost.

In October 1976, the Italian edition of Playboy published a pictorial featuring the 11-year-old Eva Ionesco. Unlike many of her other famous images, which were captured by her mother, photographer , this specific set was photographed by Jacques Bourboulon .