Nelly: Dresden Athens New York

Nelly was the pseudonym under which photographer Elli Souyoultzoglou-Seraidari (1899-1998) achieved fame for her work in Dresden, Athens and New York. This volume unites a selection of her finest portraits, nudes, dance stills, architecture photography and images of rural Greece.In the 1920s Nelly learned special techniques of photographic reproduction while working in Dresden with leading German photographers of the day, Hugo Erfurth and Franz Fiedler. Using these techniques, in particular the bromoil method, she was able to make photographs which closely resemble painted works. At this time she began making nudes and dance stills.On her return to Greece she opened a photo sudio in Athens and created portraits of intellectuals, the rich and the beautiful in the greek metropolis. As well as portraiture she produced images of the Acropolis, the Greek country and its people in large scale series. She became the official national photographer of her country and her works were exhibited in the Greek booth at the world exhibition in New York in 1939.On the outbreak of World War Two, Nelly remained in New York where her work developed a stronger urban, photo-journalistic character. In 1966, her creative activity having come to an end, she returned to Greece.Harder, Matthias is the author of 'Nelly: Dresden Athens New York' with ISBN 9783791325538 and ISBN 3791325531.