Laurent Mannoni, 1966-

Biography

Laurent Mannoni is Scientific Director of Heritage and Director of the Conservatoire des Techniques at the Cinémathèque Française, Paris. Author of a doctoral thesis on motion recording in the 19th century, he has published some 20 works, including: Le Grand art de la lumière et de l'ombre (1994), Etienne-Jules Marey, la mémoire de l'œil (1999), Lettres d'Etienne-Jules Marey à Georges Demenÿ (with Thierry Lefebvre and Jacques Malthête (2000), Mouvements de l'air, Etienne-Jules Marey photographe des fluides (with Georges Didi-Huberman (2004), Histoire de la Cinémathèque française (2006), L'œuvre de Georges Méliès (with Jacques Malthête) (2008), Lanterne magique et film peint (with Donata Pesenti Campagnoni) (2009), Tournages, Paris - Berlin - Hollywood, 1910-1939 (with Isabelle Champion) (2010), Alice Guy, Léon Gaumont et les débuts du film sonore (with Maurice Gianati) (2012), Les Enfants du Paradis (with Stéphanie Salmon) (2012), Georges Méliès, la magia del cine (2013), La Machine cinéma (2016), Méliès, La magie du cinéma (2020), Objectif mer, l'océan filmé (2023). He has produced around fifteen exhibitions on these subjects.