Bernard Lipnitzki was born in Paris in 1930. A cinema fan, he took the examination to French cinema school IDHEC in 1949. As he failed it, he followed his father to Venezuela where the latter opened a photographic studio. In 1950, he performed his military service in Germany, where he served as the regiment photographer and learned all about shooting, developing and printing. After his service, he went to work for 3 years at his uncle, photographer Boris Lipnitzki’s Paris studio. Bored with the theatre shots which were the studio’s specialty, Bernard Lipnitzki was hired by weekly magazine “France Dimanche”, where he photographed Céline, Sagan, Dali, Audrey Hepburn…etc… In October 1956, Bernard Lipnitzki covered the Six-Day War with another reporter from “Paris-Match”; in 1957, he went on for a photographic World tour sponsored by the French National Centre for Foreign Trade. Back in Paris in 1958, he was hired by weekly magazine “Jours de France” and worked there for 4 years, covering the demonstrations of May 13, 1958 in Paris, and De Gaulle’s trip to Algeria. After briefly joining men’s magazine “Lui”, he spent 2 years in the USA as an advertising photographer, where he also freelanced for “Esquire”. He came back to France in 1969 and pursued his career as an advertising photographer and reporter until 1995. In the late 80s, Roger-Viollet acquired a selection of the Bernard Lipnitzki’s production, which it distributes on an exclusive basis.
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Micheline Presle (born in 1922), French actress, December 1959.
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Wedding of Princess Diane and Duke Karl of Württemberg. Alsthausen (Germany), on July 22, 1960.
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Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993), British actress, at the bar of the Hôtel Raphael. Paris (XVIth arrondissement), 1956.
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The café de Flore. Paris (VIth arrondissement), June 1959.
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Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Alain Delon and Jean-Claude Brialy (from behind). France, on October 9, 1958.
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Romy Schneider (1938-1982), Austrian actress, and Alain Delon (born in 1935), French actor. Paris, on October 9, 1958.
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Juliette Gréco (born in 1927), French singer, on August 3rd, 1959.
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Henri Salvador (1917-2008), French singer, in 1956.
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Salvador Dali (1904-1989), Spanish painter and engraver. Paris, 1956.
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French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961) with his dogs. Meudon (France) around 1955.
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Marina Vlady in Balenciaga's fashion house. Paris, 1959.
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Girl in front of a jukebox, 1956.
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"L'Ange blanc", French wrestler. Paris, January 1959.
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"Gandhi" (Alexandre Nicolas Gormis) and Renée Janvier. Rock'n'Roll. Paris, 1956.
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Claude Bessy and Yvan Algorof. Opéra de Paris, May 7, 1958.
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Dancers on the stage of the Lido. Paris, March 1960.
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General de Gaulle (1890-1970), at the time of a trip in Brittany. September 1960.
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French director Claude Chabrol and the actors of his first two movies at the café "Les Deux-Magot": Bernadette Lafont, Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy and Juliet Mayniel. Paris, April 1959.
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The 24 Hours of Le Mans (Sarthe). June 20-21, 1959. Roger Vadim, Annette Stroyberg and Christian Marquand, at the Ferrari stand.
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Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman, with his wife Clementine Hozier. On the right : Tina Onassis. Monte-Carlo (Principality of Monaco), July 1959.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930-2022), French actor and director, Barbara Lass (1940-1995), Polish actress and wife of Roman Polanski (born in 1933), Polish-born French director, producer and scriptwriter. Paris, Januay 1960.
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Roger Pierre (1923-2010) and Jean-Marc Thibault (1923-2017), French actors. France, 1956.
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Dance lesson by Paulette Dynalix, French dancer. Paris Opera ballet school, April 1960.
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Algerians. Paris, Arc de triomphe, on July 14, 1958.
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Sophia Loren, Italian actress. Paris, February 11, 1960.
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Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress. France, about 1965.
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Sacha Distel (1933-2004), French singer, in 1967.
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Micheline Presle, French actress. December 1959.
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Maria Callas aboard Aristotelis Onassis' yacht "Christina", with her husband, G.B. Meneghini. From behind, left to right: Aristotelis Onassis, Winston Churchill and Tina Onassis. Monaco (Principality of Monaco), on July 23, 1959.
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Pablo Picasso attending a bullfight. Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), 1958.
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General de Gaulle (1890-1970), making a speech, place de Jaude. Clermont-Ferrand (France), on June 8, 1959.
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"La Mariée est trop belle", film by Pierre Gaspard-Huit. Brigitte Bardot. France, 1956.
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Women's fashion. Suits. February 1960.
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Second Arab-Israeli conflict. Moshe Dayan, Israeli commander-in-chief, and Burns, Canadian General, representative of the UNO after the ceasefire. Israel, on December 7, 1956.
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The General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), French statesman, with the General Salan, de Soustelle, Guichard and Jacquinot. Algeria, on June 4, 1958.
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Habib Bourguiba ( 1903-2000 ), Tunisian statesman, arriving in a Tunisian city, 1956.
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Car (DS 19 Citroën) in General de Gaulle's official cortègen, President of the French Republic, arriving at the Château de Rambouillet (Yvelines), on September 4, 1959.
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Coco Chanel (1883-1971), French fashion designer and Marie-Hélène Arnaud (1934-1986), French top model and actress. Paris, August 1958.
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Françoise Sagan (1935-2004), French writer, and Anthony Perkins (1932-1992), American actor, August 1960.
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Princess Grace and her husband, Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Paris, October 9, 1958.
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Erté (Romain de Tirtoff, known as, 1892-1990), preparant the costumes for Zizi Jeanmaire's variety show at the Casino de Paris, 1970.
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Actors of the "Nouvelle vague". From left to right: Laurent Terzieff, Jeanne Valérie, Juliette Mayniel, Andréa Parisy, Jean-Claude Brialy, Annette Stroyberg. April 1959.
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Launching of the SS France, French liner. Saint-Nazaire (France), on May 12, 1960.
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Bernard Franck, Françoise Sagan, Michel Magne and Madeleine Chapsal. Saint-Tropez (Var, France), in 1956.
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Françoise Sagan behind the wheel, with Michel Magne, seated on the foreground, Jacques Quoirez, behind, and Florence Malraux, hidden face. Saint-Tropez, 1956.
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Charles Aznavour (1924-2018), Armenian-born French singer-songwriter and actor, riding a moped, March 1959. Photograph by Bernard Liptnizki (1930-2012).
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Farah Dibah at Yves Saint Laurent's, on November 1959.
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Françoise Sagan (1935-2004), French woman of letters. Saint-Tropez (France), 1956.
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Presentation of the Constitution bill for the French Fifth Republic by General de Gaulle. At the bottom of the platform, on the centre : Pierre Lefranc. Paris, place de la République, on September 4, 1958.
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Shooting of "The Longest Day" directed by Ken Annakin and Andrew Marton. France, 1962.
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