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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art hosted an exhibition titled "Signs and Wonders: The Photographs of John Beasley Greene" (31 August 2019 – 5 January 2020).
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The son of an American banker, Greene was born in Le Havre and later lived in at 10 rue de la Grange Bateliere in the
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In Algeria, on his second trip in late 1855 and early 1856, he photographed excavation campaigns of the
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After his father's death in 1850, Greene was able to finance his first trip to Egypt in 1854.
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His work combined two passions: the new technology of photography and the discovery of
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Comptes-rendus des séances de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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Médinet-Habou, Palais de Ramsès Méïamoun, Entrée de La Seconde Cour (1854)
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The Sphinx by Egyptologist and photographer John Beasley Greene, ca.1853
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Excursions along the Nile: the photographic discovery of ancient Egypt
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Le Nil : monuments, paysages, explorations photographiques.
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Le Nil : monuments, paysages, explorations photographiques
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Kathleen Stewart Howe; Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1994).
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Les fouilles du tombeau de la Chrétienne au XIXe siècle
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American archaeologist and photographer (1832–1856)
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Greene (surname)

Egyptologist
documentary photographers
9th arrondissement of Paris
Ancient Egypt
Gustave Le Gray
Société française de photographie
Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania
Louis-Adrien Berbrugger
Cairo
tuberculosis
Ramses II (ca 1853)
Excavations near the Sphinx (1853)
Médinet-Habou, Palais de Ramsès Méïamoun, Entrée de La Seconde Cour (1854)
Thèbes, Village de Ghezireh (1853-1853)
Constantine, Algeria (ca. 1855)
Cascade d'El-Ourit, Tlemcen, Algeria (1856)
Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania 1856
Le Nil : monuments, paysages, explorations photographiques
Blanquart-Évrard
Bibliothèque de l'institut
Cabinet des estampes de la BNF
Smithsonian
Musée de l'Élysée
George Eastman House
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Art Institute of Chicago
"John B. Greene, an American Calotypist"
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