Studio Harcourt

Cosette Harcourt (Germaine Hirschfeld)
Typical photograph (of actress and singer Jeanne Balibar) by Studio Harcourt, showing their distinctive "glamorous 1940s movie star"-like approach to portrait photography

Studio Harcourt is a photography studio founded in 1933 by Cosette Harcourt at 11, rue Christophe-Colomb in Paris. In 1934, she joined forces with the Lacroix brothers, press bosses and Robert Ricci, son of Nina Ricci to found the Harcourt studio. It is known in particular for its black-and-white photographs of movie stars and celebrities, but having one's photo taken at Harcourt a few times during one's life was once considered standard by the French upper middle class.[1] The studio is currently located at 6, rue de Lota in the 16th arrondisment of Paris.