Trivia

The two brothers opened a Photorama at 18 rue de Clichy, Paris (15th January 1902). This new panoramic cinema replaced the old Pole Nord cinema.

His brothers and sisters, apart from Louis Lumière, are Juliette, France, Jeanne and Edouard Lumière.

Co-founded, with brother Louis Lumière, the production/distribution company Société Lumière in 1895 in France.

Auguste also had medical interests and published research in cancer and tuberculosis.

Louis and Auguste's father was photographer and painter Antoine Lumière. He had a photography studio at Besançon and would later sent his two sons to the technical school in Lyon. Then they worked together to obtain a "blue label" dry photographic plate that made a fortune.