Nelly's
Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (
Biography
She was born in Aidini (now
At some point she was referred to as "the Greek Leni Riefenstahl" because of her collaboration with the 4th of August Regime (1936–1941), of which she was one of its most prolific photographers.[citation needed] In 1936, she photographed the Berlin Olympic Games.[citation needed] In 1939, she was commissioned with the decoration of the interior of the Greek pavilion at the New York's World Fair, which she did with gigantic collages expressing in an extremely selective manner the physical similarities between ancient and modern Greeks.
As a Greek of the
While at New York for the World's Fair in 1939, she decided not to return to Greece. In the United States she continued her commercial photographic portraiture and developed further in advertising photography as well as photo-reportages. She also maintained links with powerful Greeks including shipowners Stavros Niarchos and Aristotle Onassis and developed contacts with the White House. From this period little is known of her work, except from her project "New York Easter Parade"[3][4] which in retrospective views of her work goes largely unmentioned, as it fails to align with either any previous Greek stereotype or with the continuous developments in the photographic language of her contemporaries.
Returning to Greece and death
She travelled to Greece, for a very short time, in 1949 and finally returned on 2 March 1966 and lived, together with her husband Angelos Seraidaris, at Nea Smyrni, Attica, and gave up photography.
In 1985, Nelly's donated her photo archives and cameras to the
Nelly's died in Nea Smyrni, Athens in 1998.
Notes and references
- ^ Παναγιωτόπουλος, Νίκος. "Tο δυτικό βλέμμα και η ελληνική φωτογραφία: H περίπτωση της Nelly's". pp. XX.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-34297-4.
- ^ "A.D. | ART-ATHINA". www.art-athina.gr. Archived from the original on 2013-04-26.
- ^ "Data gaps".
External links
- Page about Nelly's work at the 1939 World Fair Article on Nelly's and the Greek pavilion at the 1939 New York's World Fair
- Nelly's Book A micro-site showing some of Nelly's works
- A page about Nelly's on the Benaki Museum website