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[[File:Olga Spessiva in ballet costume, ca. 1934 - Studio Lipnitzki, 109 Fg St Honore. Paris (4405933468).jpg|thumb|Boris Lipnitzki (c.1934) [[Olga Spessivtseva]] in ballet costume]]
[[File:Olga Spessiva in ballet costume, ca. 1934 - Studio Lipnitzki, 109 Fg St Honore. Paris (4405933468).jpg|thumb|Boris Lipnitzki (c.1934) [[Olga Spessivtseva]] in ballet costume]]
[[File:Ivan-Galamian-c1930s-by Boris Lipnitzki.jpg|thumb|Boris Lipnitzki (1930s) [[Ivan Galamian]]]]
[[File:Ivan-Galamian-c1930s-by Boris Lipnitzki.jpg|thumb|Boris Lipnitzki (1930s) [[Ivan Galamian]]]]
Lipnitzki first worked for a photographer in [[Odessa]], then opened his own studio in [[Pułtusk|Pultusk]]. He arrived in Paris in the early 1920s. There, he established a studio at 40 rue du Colisée, where he photographed many of the artistic personalities of the 20th century from the 1920s-1960s,<ref><nowiki><ref>CARIGUEL, OLIVIER. Revue Des Deux Mondes, 2012, pp. 182–183. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44193291</nowiki></ref> as well as picturing them in their own surroundings.
Lipnitzki first worked for a photographer in [[Odessa]], then opened his own studio in [[Pułtusk|Pultusk]]. He arrived in Paris in the early 1920s. There, he established a studio at 40 rue du Colisée, where he photographed many of the artistic personalities of the 20th century from the 1920s-1960s,<ref>CARIGUEL, OLIVIER. Revue Des Deux Mondes, 2012, pp. 182–183. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44193291</ref> as well as picturing them in their own surroundings. His friendship with Paul Poiret with whom he would stay to photograph in [[Biarritz]], provided an entrée into these circles.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1927-09-11|title=La Côte basque : revue illustrée de l'Euzkalerria ["puis" de l'Eskual-herria]|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k30623353|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Gallica|language=EN}}</ref>



His subjects included [[Maurice Ravel]], [[René Hubert]], [[Albert Camus]], [[Blaise Cendrars]],<ref>Max Blagg: On Boris Lipnitzki's 1953 Portrait of Blaise Cendrars. (2009). Aperture, (195), 88-88. Retrieved February 1, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/24473440</ref> [[Jean Cocteau]], [[Otto Preminger]], [[Igor Stravinsky|Igor Strawinsky]], [[Arthur Honegger]],<ref>Arthur Honegger (1892-1955). Autograph score: Arioso pour Violon et Piano. 2 leaves. Undated. Given by the composer to the Paris photographer Efim Boris Lipnitzki (1887-1971). Dedication: „à Lipnitzki en très amical souvenir et avec mes remerciements pour les belles photos. A. Honegger”</ref> [[Léonide Massine|Leonid Massine]], [[Serge Lifar]], [[Paul Poiret]], [[Coco Chanel]], [[Olga Spessivtseva]], [[Nyota Inyoka]], [[Tamara Karsavina]], [[Serge Gainsbourg]], [[Les Six]], [[Marc Chagall]], [[Pablo Picasso]],<ref>CARIGUEL, OLIVIER. Revue Des Deux Mondes, 2012, pp. 182–183. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44193291</ref><ref>{{Citation|author1=Besse, Brigitte|title=Portraits pour un siècle : cent écrivains|publication-date=2011|publisher=Gallimard : Roger-Viollet|isbn=978-2-07-013194-5}}</ref> as well as [[Josephine Baker]] of whom in 1926 he made a famous series of nude photographs.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jules-Rosette, Bennetta.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64442908|title=Josephine Baker in art and life : the icon and the image|date=2007|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=0-252-03157-1|location=Urbana|oclc=64442908}}</ref>
His subjects included [[Maurice Ravel]], [[René Hubert]], [[Albert Camus]], [[Blaise Cendrars]],<ref>Max Blagg: On Boris Lipnitzki's 1953 Portrait of Blaise Cendrars. (2009). Aperture, (195), 88-88. Retrieved February 1, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/24473440</ref> [[Jean Cocteau]], [[Otto Preminger]], [[Igor Stravinsky|Igor Strawinsky]], [[Arthur Honegger]],<ref>Arthur Honegger (1892-1955). Autograph score: Arioso pour Violon et Piano. 2 leaves. Undated. Given by the composer to the Paris photographer Efim Boris Lipnitzki (1887-1971). Dedication: „à Lipnitzki en très amical souvenir et avec mes remerciements pour les belles photos. A. Honegger”</ref> [[Léonide Massine|Leonid Massine]], [[Serge Lifar]], [[Paul Poiret]], [[Coco Chanel]], [[Olga Spessivtseva]], [[Nyota Inyoka]], [[Tamara Karsavina]], [[Serge Gainsbourg]], [[Les Six]], [[Marc Chagall]], [[Pablo Picasso]],<ref>CARIGUEL, OLIVIER. Revue Des Deux Mondes, 2012, pp. 182–183. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44193291</ref><ref>{{Citation|author1=Besse, Brigitte|title=Portraits pour un siècle : cent écrivains|publication-date=2011|publisher=Gallimard : Roger-Viollet|isbn=978-2-07-013194-5}}</ref> as well as [[Josephine Baker]] of whom in 1926 he made a famous series of nude photographs.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jules-Rosette, Bennetta.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64442908|title=Josephine Baker in art and life : the icon and the image|date=2007|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=0-252-03157-1|location=Urbana|oclc=64442908}}</ref>

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Boris Lipnitzki (1887–1971) was a Ukrainian-born French photographer of the arts; ballet, fashion, cinema, visual art, writing and music.

Biography

Haim Efime Boris Lipnitzki (or Lipnitzky) was born into a Jewish family in Oster, in Chernihiv Province of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) on 4 February 1887. He died in Paris on 6 July 1971, aged 84, and is buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery.[1]

Photographer

File:Benjamin Rabier - Portrait.jpg
Boris Lipnitzki (1920s) Benjamin Rabier
File:Olga Spessiva in ballet costume, ca. 1934 - Studio Lipnitzki, 109 Fg St Honore. Paris (4405933468).jpg
Boris Lipnitzki (c.1934) Olga Spessivtseva in ballet costume
Boris Lipnitzki (1930s) Ivan Galamian

Lipnitzki first worked for a photographer in Odessa, then opened his own studio in Pultusk. He arrived in Paris in the early 1920s. There, he established a studio at 40 rue du Colisée, where he photographed many of the artistic personalities of the 20th century from the 1920s-1960s,[2] as well as picturing them in their own surroundings. His friendship with Paul Poiret with whom he would stay to photograph in Biarritz, provided an entrée into these circles.[3]


His subjects included Maurice Ravel, René Hubert, Albert Camus, Blaise Cendrars,[4] Jean Cocteau, Otto Preminger, Igor Strawinsky, Arthur Honegger,[5] Leonid Massine, Serge Lifar, Paul Poiret, Coco Chanel, Olga Spessivtseva, Nyota Inyoka, Tamara Karsavina, Serge Gainsbourg, Les Six, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso,[6][7] as well as Josephine Baker of whom in 1926 he made a famous series of nude photographs.[8]

Lipnitzki was a stills photographer on Gance's Napoléon and caught more informal views of crew and actors relaxing,[9] his pictures being used on the covers of the programs and displayed in cinemas, but despite assurances, he was not given credit for them. A trial followed in the Seine tribunal and the producer of the film was ordered to pay 30,000 francs (about US$16000 in 2010) to Lipnitzki. The industry publication Le Photographe called attention to this as a precedent in French copyright law.[10] He also recorded many major ballet performances and made studio portraits of dancers.[11]

Photographs by Lipnitski were published in Femina, The Paris Times, Paris-Alger magazine, Les Modes, La Vie parisienne, Chantecler revue, Vogue (Paris), L'Atlantique, Paris-soir, La Femme de France, Être belle, Le Photographe, Le Point, Adam: revue des modes masculines en France et à l'étranger, Ambiance, Comoedia, Claudine, Le Monde illustré.

Lipnitzki's prodigious output was decimated when the Athenaeum theatre, where his friend Louis Jouvet had helped him hide his prints during the Occupation was flooded while he had fled to stay with his friend Chagall in New York .

Post-war

After the war, he and his brothers established the Lipnitzki Studio which was in full production and by 1946 was advertising for staff,[12] and operated until just before Lipnitzki died.[13] In the mid-50s, his nephew Bernard Lipnitski joined the studio for three years, before being hired by weekly magazine France Dimanche, for which he photographed Céline Monsarrat, Françoise Sagan and Salvador Dali, then was employed as a photojournalist by other French magazines.[14]

Legacy

In 1970, his collection—more than a million negatives and 600,000 prints—and that of his nephew, was bought by the Roger-Viollet agency.[15] Attribution of images from the studio made 1945–1969 to a particular photographer amongst the brothers is not always certain.

Publications

  • Haim Efime Boris Lipnitzki (1952), Images de Louis Jouvet, Paris Emile-Paul frères, retrieved 1 February 2021
  • Lipnitzki, Boris; Denoyelle, Françoise (2013), Boris Lipnitzki : le magnifique, Chaudun, ISBN 978-2-35039-140-3

Solo exhibitions

  • 2005, 7 May – 12 Jun: Boris Lipnitzki, Espace Saint-Jean, Melun

Group exhibitions

Collections

References

  1. ^ Beauvis, Charlette. (1992). Le columbarium du Père-Lachaise : la crémation, son histoire, sa pratique, son avenir. Langlade, Vincent. Paris: Editions Vermet. ISBN 2-86514-022-9. OCLC 30318883.
  2. ^ CARIGUEL, OLIVIER. Revue Des Deux Mondes, 2012, pp. 182–183. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44193291
  3. ^ "La Côte basque : revue illustrée de l'Euzkalerria ["puis" de l'Eskual-herria]". Gallica. 1927-09-11. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  4. ^ Max Blagg: On Boris Lipnitzki's 1953 Portrait of Blaise Cendrars. (2009). Aperture, (195), 88-88. Retrieved February 1, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/24473440
  5. ^ Arthur Honegger (1892-1955). Autograph score: Arioso pour Violon et Piano. 2 leaves. Undated. Given by the composer to the Paris photographer Efim Boris Lipnitzki (1887-1971). Dedication: „à Lipnitzki en très amical souvenir et avec mes remerciements pour les belles photos. A. Honegger”
  6. ^ CARIGUEL, OLIVIER. Revue Des Deux Mondes, 2012, pp. 182–183. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44193291
  7. ^ Besse, Brigitte (2011), Portraits pour un siècle : cent écrivains, Gallimard : Roger-Viollet, ISBN 978-2-07-013194-5
  8. ^ Jules-Rosette, Bennetta. (2007). Josephine Baker in art and life : the icon and the image. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-03157-1. OCLC 64442908.
  9. ^ "Agence Roger-Viollet : Napoleon seen by Abel Gance". The Eye of Photography Magazine. 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  10. ^ Le Photographe : organe des photographes professionnels, Société Photovision (Paris) No.233, 5 January 1929, p.16
  11. ^ "Past to Present : Photos by Boris LIPNITZKI". www.past-to-present.com. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  12. ^ advertisement, Le Photographe : organe des photographes professionnels, Société Photovision (Paris), no.633, 6 October 1946
  13. ^ Roger-Viollet Agency. "Boris LIpnitzki". Roger-Viollet. Retrieved 2021-02-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ Roger-Viollet Agency. "Bernard Lipnitzki". Roger-Viollet. Retrieved 2021-02-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ "Boris Lipnitzki photographs held by the Roger-Viollet Photo agency". Roger-Viollet. Retrieved 2021-02-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ "musée Nicéphore Niépce - 1925-1935, une décennie bouleversante". www.museeniepce.com. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  17. ^ L'Informateur de la photographie : organe officiel de la Chambre syndicale des fabricants et négociants de la photographie, No.109, March 1930, p.27
  18. ^ "Lipnitzki Boris - 19251935partie6". collections.museeniepce.com. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
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