[ Photographs ] Greene, John Beasley Thebes, Gournah. Salted paper print from a calotype negative, with notations, in an unidentified hand and in pencil, on verso. 1854 E2000-3000 J B. Greene was brought up in Paris, the son of an American banker. he

[ Photographs ] Greene, John Beasley Thebes, Gournah. Salted paper print from a calotype negative, with notations, in an unidentified hand and in pencil, on verso. 1854 E2000-3000 J B. Greene was brought up in Paris, the son of an American banker. he took his first photographic expedition to Upper Egypt and Nubia between 1853-54 his 94 prints were brought back to France where they were published by Blanquart-Evrard, in 1854 Subsequently, he went on to become abounding member of the Societe francaise de Photographie. Greene returned to Egypt twice and, sadly, died at the age of twenty-four in 1856 his work is discussed in Isabelle Jammes's catalog raisonne, Blanquart-Evrard Et Les Origines De l'edition Photographique Francaise, p. 60, and in Photography and Architecture, 1839-1939 (Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1982, pp. 246-47