Biography
Pierre Lhomme was a French cinematographer. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1930, he trained at the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière and began working in film in the early 1950s.
He collaborated with directors of the French New Wave and later with Jean-Pierre Melville on Army of Shadows (1969) and Jean Eustache on The Mother and the Whore (1973). He co-directed the documentary Le Joli Mai (1963) with Chris Marker. Lhomme shot several films for Jean-Paul Rappeneau, including Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), for which he received a César Award for Best Cinematography, and worked repeatedly with James Ivory and Ismail Merchant on titles such as Maurice (1987) and Le Divorce (2003).
He won a second César for Camille Claudel (1988) and received a BAFTA Award for Cyrano de Bergerac. Lhomme died in Arles in 2019.
