J.B. Greene was an American archeologist based in Paris where he was a member of the Société Françoise de Photographie and a pupil of Gustave le Gray. He made two expedition to Egypt and Nubia between 1853 and 1855, to photograph the land and document the monument and their inscriptions, he took over two hundred photographs. In 1855 he published his photographs and he died in Egypt the following year perhaps of tuberculosis, his negatives were given to his friend, fellow Egyptologist and photographer Théodule Devéria. Green's photographs are abstract deserts landscape of exquisite subtlety from a age consumed by the precision with which photography transliterates reality.
REF: JBG11HCP01
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