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The archaeologist and photographer John Beasley Greene

made “Banks of the Nile at Thebes” in 1854,

but it feels contemporary.

The composition breaks

into three horizontal zones: the sky, the river,

and a thin layer, much darker, of the line of the shore.

Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Much About John Beasley Greene Is in Doubt. Not His Talent.

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Dec. 17, 2019

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John Beasley Greene’s “Giza. Sphinx” (1853-1854)

in the show “Signs and Wonders,”

at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Credit: Bibliotheque Nationale de France

Much About John Beasley Greene Is in Doubt. Not His Talent.

NYT

Dec. 17, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/
arts/photography-john-beasley-greene.html

John Beasley Greene, also John Beasly Greene

1832 Le Havre, France - 1856 Cairo, Egypt

A French-born archaeologist

based in Paris and a student

of photographer Gustave Le Gray,

John Beasly Greene

became a founding member

of the Société Française

de Photographie

and belonged to two societies

devoted to Eastern studies.

Greene became

the first practicing

archaeologist

to use photography,

although he was careful

to keep separate files

for his documentary images

and his more artistic

landscapes.

In 1853 Greene embarked

on an expedition

to Egypt and Nubia

to photograph the land

and document the monuments

and their inscriptions.

Upon his return,

Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard

published an album of ninety-four

of these photographs.

Greene returned

to Egypt the following year

to photograph and to excavate

at Medinet-Habu in Upper Egypt,

the site of the mortuary temple

built by Ramses III.

In 1855 he published

his photographs

of the excavation there.

The following year,

Greene died in Egypt,

perhaps of tuberculosis,

and his negatives

were given to his friend,

fellow Egyptologist

and photographer

Théodule Devéria.

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