[citation needed] As owner of the "Atelier Lili Baruch" in Berlin, Kurfürstendamm 201, she photographed actors and dancers of the Goldenen Zwanziger Jahre with a Leica, including silent film star Ernst Hofmann and Lisa Weise, sculptor Renée Sintenis and her sculptural works, and art dealers Alfred Flechtheim and Leo Blumenreich.
Baruch was thus on the pulse of the times and in the neighbourhood of other hip female photographers (largely Jewish like her), all of whom had set up shop at the eastern end of Kurfürstendamm: Frieda Riess was at Kudamm 14–15, Steffi Brandl at no.
225, the most avant-garde of the German fashion photographers, Yva, around the corner at Bleibtreustrasse 17, and Lotte and Ruth Jacobi at Joachimsthaler Strasse 5, later Kurfürstendamm 216.
In the magazines Das Leben, Revue des Monats and Tempo – Magazin für Fortschritt und Kultur Baruch received commissions on Black and White in 1927, which referred in particular to the delimitable feature of skin colour, the new fad of German jazz, the accompanying new dance forms of Black Bottom and Charleston, as well as the Berlin Negro revues, in the mid-1920s.
During a tour of Japan with the group, Heinrich Baruch emigrated to the United States in 1938, where he became a naturalised citizen and lived in New York.