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"title": "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"title": "Pyramids & Sphinxes: Views of Egypt",
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"description": "On the first of three trips to Egypt, John Beasley Greene created some 200 photographs. His work rarely documented favorite tourist sites in a conventionally descriptive manner; rather, he concentrated on poetic landscapes and archaeologically significant monuments. In this haunting photograph of Luxor, Greene's ability to depict expansive pictorial space is clearly evident. By surrounding the low, blocklike forms of the site's architecture with large vistas of vacant desert and sky, he emphasized a feeling of isolation and abandonment.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
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"biography": "John Beasley Greene American, b. France, 1832-1856\r\n\r\nJohn Beasley Greene was born in France to American parents; his father, John Bulkley Greene, was a Boston banker working in Le Havre and then Paris. The younger Greene was a founding member of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise de photographie and joined the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 asiatique. He combined an early interest in archaeology and photography, working in Egypt, the Middle East, and North Africa in the brief period from 1853 until his premature death in 1856. During this time, Greene produced a body of work using the waxed paper process, outstanding in its aesthetic and technical merits and unusual in its clearly personal approach. Frequently spare and almost minimalist to a modern eye, his work emphasizes abstract form, tempered by the visual textures of his negatives and paper.\r\n\tIn 1854 Blanquart-\u00c9vrard published some 94 of Greene's prints in Le Nil. Monuments et paysages. Explorations photographiques. Although similar in subject to that of Maxime Du Camp and F\u00e9lix Teynard, Greene's work remains unique\u2014depicting poetic landscapes of the Nile and the distant desert inhabited by ancient monuments. T.W.F.",
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