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Arts > Photo > List by Name > John Beasley Greene 1832-1856
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. NYT Dec. 17, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/
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/
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.
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1841/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/103KHN
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/
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