Antoine Lumière
Antoine Lumière (born October 18, 1840 – February 10, 1904) was a French businessman and photographer, best known as the father of the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis. In 1860, he left his hometown in the Haute-Saône to establish a photography business in Besançon. By 1870, he had moved to Lyons, where he expanded his business and built an industrial plant for manufacturing photographic plates. Under his leadership, the Lumière Company became...
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