Antoine Lumière

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Antoine Lumière (ca.1901)

Claude Antoine Lumière (born March 13, 1840 in Ormoy , Haute-Saône department , † April 15, 1911 in Paris ) was a French photographer and father of the Lumière brothers .

Life

In 1860, Antoine Lumière started his own business in Besançon . His two sons Auguste (1862–1954) and Louis (1864–1948) were born there. In 1870 the family moved to Lyon . There Lumière built up an industrial production of photographic plates. The company was taken over by his sons in 1893. In 1894 the company employed 300 workers, had a capital of 3 million francs and produced 15 million records a year.

literature

  • Guy Borgé, Marjorie Borgé: Les Lumière. Antoine, Auguste, Louis et les autres: l'invention du cinéma, les autochromes . Préface de Jacques Trarieux-Lumière. Lyon: ELAH, Éd. lyonnaises d'art et d'histoire, 2004.
  • Jacques Rittaud-Hutinet: Antoine, Auguste et Louis Lumière . Lyon: Lugd, 1994.