Nelly (Elly Seraidari, née Souyoultzoylou; 1899-1998), Greek photographer. Born in Aydin, Turkey, she studied art, music, and photography in Dresden in the 1920s. She opened a studio in Athens in 1924, introducing new techniques and styles to Greek visual culture and specializing in photographing dance movement. Despite the uproar over her portrait of a nude dancer on the Parthenon in 1927, her career flourished in Greece, where she worked for the official tourism agency, and later in New York, where she and her husband, the pianist Angelos Seraidari, lived from 1940 to 1966. In 1987 her work was exhibited at the Benaki Museum in Athens.
— Naomi Rosenblum
Bibliography
- Harder, M., Nelly: Dresden—Athens—New York. From the Photographic Archive of the Benaki Museum, Athens (2001)
