[ Photographs ] Greene, John Bulkley Egyptian ruins. Salted paper print from a paper negative, 9.25 x 11.25inches. 1854-56 E3000-4000 Greene, the son of an American banker established in Paris, took his first photographic expedition to Upper Egypt

[ Photographs ] Greene, John Bulkley Egyptian ruins. Salted paper print from a paper negative, 9.25 x 11.25inches. 1854-56 E3000-4000 Greene, the son of an American banker established in Paris, took his first photographic expedition to Upper Egypt and Nubia between 1853-54 his ninety-four prints were brought back to France and published by Blanquart-Evrard in 1854 One of the most striking qualities of Greene 's studies, unlike those taken by Maxime Du Camp and other contemporaries, is that they shunned the traditional descriptive views and, rather, focused on the poetic landscapes of the Nile, the desert expanses, and archeologically significant monuments. Greene went on to become a founding member of the Societe Francaise de Photographie, returned to Egypt twice, and, sadly, died at the age of twenty- four in 1856 See: Photography and Architecture, 1839-1939 (Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1982), pp. 246-47