Boris Lipnitzki and his collaborators where among the first photographers specialized in the domains of fashion and spectacles. From 1925 to 1970, they realized thousands of shots for Paul Poiret, Chanel, Lanvin, Helena Rubinstein as well as for numerous theatrical and artistic campaigns in France and at Monaco. The photograph « Capeline de paille Rose Valois, garnie de gros grain » was taken at Paris in January 1937.
About the artist :
Boris
Lipnitzki
Boris Lipnitzki, born in Russia in 1897, came to live in Paris in 1921. There he met Paul Poiret who introduced him to this clientele , set up his first studio and began a career as an up and coming photographer. Beginning in 1924, he published his photographs of the fashion business in Femina and Excelsior (Heim, Schiaparelli, Chanel, Rouff....), photographs of celebrities (Josephine Baker, Dulin, Artaud, Cocteau, Jouvet, Giraudoux, Anouilh, Michel Simon, Colette) and took pictures of celebrations and society events. He frequented the Russian community in Paris, visiting artists' studios and theaters, photographing ballet and theater decors, as well as the designers and the performers (Fokine, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Lifar among others). He fled occupied France during the war, meeting up again with Marc Chagall in New York. After the war, he and his brothers founded the Lipnitski Studio which until the end of the sixties covered Paris theater, ballet and opera events. Boris Lipnitski died in Paris in 1971.