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Home > Contents > People > Photographers > Louis Lumière

Names:
Joint: Lumière Brothers 
Dates:  1864, 5 October - 1948, 6 June
Born:  France, Besan çon
Died:  France, Bandol
Active:  France
Gender:  Male
 
  
One of the key people in the development of motion pictures but he was also important in still photography and in 1907 he marketed Autochrome which was the first commercially available color process.

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Lumière Brothers
M. Louis Lumiere in 1907: photograph taken at the time he developed the Autochrome process 
[L'Illustration (No 4836, 93rd year), p.301] 
1935, 9 November
 
  
Family history 
  
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Internet biographies

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Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
 

Internet resources

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Institut Lumière 
http://www.institut-lumiere.org 
The Institut Lumière is housed at: 25 rue du Premier-Film - BP 8051 - 69352 - Lyon Cedex 08 (Tél. 33 04 78 78 18 95 Fax 33 04 78 01 36 62). 
  
Louis Jean Lumière (Who's Who of Victorian Cinema) 
http://www.victorian-cinema.net ... 
  
 

Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on photographers.] 
  
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.311-312 
  
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on Louis Lumière.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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