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. His work combined two passions: the new technology of photography and the discovery of
Ancient Egypt. He employed a waxed paper negative process learned from
Gustave Le Gray. After his father's death in 1850, Greene was able to finance his first trip to Egypt in 1854. He was a founding member of the
Société française de photographie, founded on 15 November 1854. That same year, he published photographs from his expedition under the title,
Le Nil : monuments, paysages, explorations photographiques. In Algeria, on his second trip in late 1855 and early 1856, he photographed excavation campaigns of the
Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania in Algeria, led by
Louis-Adrien Berbrugger. He died in
Cairo, possibly of
tuberculosis, at the age of 24.
Gallery File:Green, John B. - Abu Simbel; Toui, die Mutter von Ramses II., Statue links des zweiten, südlichen Kolosses am Tempel von Ramses II. (Zeno Fotografie).jpg|Ramses II (ca 1853) File:-Excavations near the Sphinx- MET DP138841.jpg|Excavations near the Sphinx (1853) File:John Beasly Greene (American, born France - (Médinet-Habou, Palais de Ramsès Méïamoun, Entrée de La Seconde Cour) - Google Art Project.jpg|Médinet-Habou, Palais de Ramsès Méïamoun, Entrée de La Seconde Cour (1854) File:ALBUM OF EGYPT AND ALGERIA, 1.PNG|Thèbes, Village de Ghezireh (1853-1853) File:ALBUM OF EGYPT AND ALGERIA, 6.PNG|Constantine, Algeria (ca. 1855) File:ALBUM OF EGYPT AND ALGERIA, 8.PNG|Cascade d'El-Ourit, Tlemcen, Algeria (1856) File:John Beasly Greene (American, born France - (Tomb of the Christian, Algeria) - Google Art Project.jpg|Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania 1856 ==Exhibitions==