John Beasley Greene

Early photographer of archaeology.

The NYT has a fine piece on this little known photographer whose output dates from the 1850sand who died at a very young age.




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The author writes: “Today, Greeneā€™s images evoke a time when travel was still an adventure, ancient civilizations were largely mysterious and the grammar of photography was just being invented.” And, I would add, before social media destroyed photography.