Alexandre Michon

{{Short description|Russian film director and cinematographer (1858–1921)}}

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| birth_date = 5 July 1858

| birth_place = Kharkov, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{d-da|5 July 1921|5 July 1858}}

| death_place = near Samara, Russia

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Alexandre Mikhailovich Mishon ({{langx|ru|Александр Михайлович Мишон}}; 5 July 1858 – 5 July 1921) was a Russian photographer and cinematographer. Born to a French family in Kharkov, he started his career as a photographer and owned a photo studio in his hometown. He later settled in Baku (now Azerbaijan) and lived there for 25 years.{{cite book |title=Ecology and popular film: cinema on the edge |last=Murray |first=Robin L. |author2=Heumann, Joseph K. |year=2009 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-0-7914-7678-9 |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocC6QL8Jd7sC&pg=PA23 }} Here, in 1898, he shot his first films using a Lumière cinematograph. Mishon is widely regarded as the pioneer of Azerbaijani cinema.