John Beasley Greene

John Beasley Greene (1832 – November 1856) was a French-born American Egyptologist and one of the earliest archaeological documentary photographers.

[1][2] 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 9th arrondissement of Paris.

He employed a waxed paper negative process learned from Gustave Le Gray.

That same year, he published photographs from his expedition under the title, Le Nil : monuments, paysages, explorations photographiques.

[2] 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).