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Temple of Amon, Luxor
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John Beasley GreeneAmerican Photographer · 1832–1856
All works by this person →A French-born archaeologist based in Paris and a student of photographer Gustave Le Gray, John Beasly Greene became a founding member of the Société Française de Photographie and belonged to two societies devoted to Eastern studies. Greene became the first practicing archaeologist to use photography, although he was careful to keep separate files for his documentary images and his more artistic la
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- 1853–1854
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- Salted paper print from a waxed paper negative
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
"[P]art apparition from the past, part record of the present" aptly describes John Beasly Greene's desolate view of the ruins of the Temple of Amon at Thebes, Egypt, built by King Amenhotep III, who reigned from 1390 to 1353 B.C. At the left a solitary palm tree encroaches into the space, leaning toward the remains of the once majestic colonnade of fourteen fifty-two-foot-high pillars with papyrus capitals. On the right are the remains of the large peristyle court. Greene has photographed the ruins from a great distance, making them appear rather small.
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