Lumière
Lumière is the surname of the following people:
- Antoine Lumière (1840–1911), French photographer
- the Lumière brothers , French entrepreneurs and inventors:
- Auguste Lumière (1862–1954)
- Louis Lumière (1864-1948)
Lumière also stands for:
- (775) Lumière , an asteroid
- Lumière Peak , mountain in Graham Land, Antarctica
- Institut Lumière , an institute established in 1982 in the Villa Lumière in Lyon with a museum of cinema and a film library and archive,
- LUMIERE , a database for pan-European cinema attendance.
- Kino Lumière , movie theater opened in Göttingen in 1980, organizer of the Göttingen European Film Festival
The following prizes for photography and film are named after the Lumière brothers :
- Prix Lumières , prizes awarded since 1996 for films from the French-speaking area
- Lumiere Award, an award given by the Royal Photographic Society for performance in the fields of film or animation in the United Kingdom
- Lumiere Awards, awards given by the US Advanced Imaging Society for achievements in the fields of virtual reality , augmented reality , high dynamic range video and related new technologies.
See also:
Wiktionary: lumière - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Prix Lumière , awards
- Stade des Lumières , a football stadium in Lyon
