Symposium: Signs and Wonders, The Photographs of John Beasley Greene

March 6, 2020
Nichols Board of Trustees Suite, The Art Institute of Chicago

This public symposium examines the context and legacy of John Beasley Greene’s 19th-century photographs of Egypt and Algeria. Employing the exhibition Signs and Wonders: The Photographs of John Beasley Greene as a jumping-off point, this symposium brings together scholars and artists from a range of disciplines to examine photography, archaeology, orientalism, postcolonialism, and how the 19th century still resonates today.

Session 3:
Greene and the Contemporary Moment

Basma Alsharif, artist, “A Trick of the Eye”

Group discussion, moderated by Douglas R. Nickel