[狮身人面像附近的发掘] - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	[狮身人面像附近的发掘]
品名（英）	[Excavations near the Sphinx]
入馆年号	2005年，2005.100.276
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	John Beasley Greene【1832 至 1856】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1853
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 22.3 x 30.2 厘米 (8 3/4 x 11 7/8 英寸) Mount: 18 11/16 × 24 5/16 英寸 (47.5 × 61.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	格林是一位居住在巴黎的波士顿银行家的儿子，他是一位考古学家，学会了使用古斯塔夫·勒·格雷的蜡纸工艺，这是19世纪中期法国旅行时首选的摄影技术。1853年，他首次前往埃及和努比亚，带回了200多张纪念碑和风景的底片在吉萨，格林拍摄了数千年来一直矗立在沙漠沙滩上的大金字塔和狮身人面像，但他也将相机指向下方，当时正在挖掘的挖掘揭示了埋藏已久的哈弗雷山谷神庙和通往他的金字塔的堤道，在左上角几乎看不到。发掘工作由法国考古学家François Mariette领导，他是埃及文物服务局的创始人。尽管格林照片中所有精心摆出姿势的人似乎都是埃及人，但法国人的存在仍然存在：三色从狮身人面像头上的旗杆上飞出，一个殖民主义的象征，象征着该国在恢复埃及古老历史中的利害关系。
介绍（英）	The son of a banker from Boston who lived in Paris, Greene was an archaeologist who learned to use Gustave Le Gray's waxed-paper process, the photographic technique of choice in the mid-nineteenth century for traveling Frenchmen. In 1853 he made the first of two expeditions to Egypt and Nubia, bringing back more than two hundred negatives of monuments and landscapes. At Giza, Greene photographed the great pyramids and sphinx that had towered above the desert sands for millennia, but he also pointed his camera downward, to the excavations that were just then bringing to light the long-buried Valley Temple of Khafre and the causeway that led to his pyramid, barely seen in the top left corner. The excavations were led by the French archaeologist François Mariette, founder of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, and although all the carefully posed people in Greene’s photograph appear to be Egyptian, the French presence is felt nonetheless: the tricolor flies from a flagpole on the head of the sphinx, a colonizing symbol of the country’s stake in the recovery of Egypt’s ancient past.