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 fashion designer 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.
[16] Boris Lipnitzki continued to agitate for copyright law in relation to professional photography and his opinion and participation was sought, amongst other instances, by the meeting of Commission des Droits d'Auteur of February 1945, and on other occasions.