A fashionable portraitist from the roaring twenties through the end of the 1950s, Boris Lipnitzki was born in Russia in 1897 and moved to Paris in 1921. With the support of his friend, fashion designer Paul Poiret, he opened a photographic studio as popular with the Russian exiles as with the fashion set, the photographer a welcome guest in artists' studios as well as in Parisian salons. He spent WWII in New York with Marc Chagall and returned to Paris after the war. His photographic production is a true “Who’s Who” of the Parisian creative world of the time, from writers to musicians, from painters to fashion designers. A large section of the Boris Lipnitzki's portraits from the Roger-Viollet collections is now being digitized by Parisienne de Photographie with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Communication.