He was behind the look of films like Jean-Pierre Melville's 'Army of Shadows' and Jean Eustache's 'The Mother and the Whore.'
Lhomme graduated from Louis-Lumière in 1953 and began working as an assistant cameraman and camera operator on films like Philippe de Broca’s. He also befriended several directors of the budding French New Wave, working as an operator on Eric Rohmer’s first feature,His first feature credit as a cinematographer was on Robert Darène’s 1958 pirate adventureLhomme went on to shoot dozens of features from the 1960s up to the late 1990s.
Along with his two César awards, Lhomme received a Prix Premio Gianni de Venanzo, named after the Italian cinematographer of, back in 2005, and a lifetime achievement prize at the Camerimage festival in Poland in 2008. He was also crowned an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in France.
During a 12-hour interview that Lhomme gave with students at the French film school La Fémis in 2014, he summed up his approach to cinematography this way: “I never had a fixed or preconceived idea about cinema. … One of the main skills of a good cameraman is to be able to pass from one director to another and adapt to their different worlds. What I loved above all else was working with talented people.
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