Elli Sougiultzoglou Seraïdari (aka Nelly’s / Νελλυς) :: French dancer Daljell, photo-shoot on Athens Acropolis by the Greek photographer Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidaris in 1930 | src Benaki museum

Elli Souyioultzoglou Seraidari:  Athlete, Athens  (1927)

Acropolis, -- Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari aka Nelly’s 1929

French dancer Dal jell, photo-shoot on Athens Acropolis by the Greek photographer Nelly’s (Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidaris) in 1930 / https://tinyurl.com/y9qypnyb

Nicolska at the Acropolis (1929)

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Nelly's :: Delphic Festivals, Io from Prometheus Bound (Delphi, 1930) | src Benaki museum

Nelly's (Elli Souyoultzoglou-Seraidari) :: Paris Opera Comique dancer Mona Paiva posing naked at the Acropolis, October 1925 © Benaki Museum / Nelly's retrospective 2023

Elly Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari :: Dancers of the Mary Wigman dance school in Dresden, ca. 1923 | Benaki museum

view more : Nelly's retrospective at Benaki Museum

Elli Souyoultzoglou-Seraidari (Nelly's) :: Dominiki (or Dominika) Malamidis in her bridal gargoyle costume, Delphi, 1930. © Benaki Museum

Elly Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (1899-1998) retrospective exhibition : Her diverse work is arranged in three chapters corresponding to the three cities in which she shaped her photographic point-of-view: from her student years in Dresden in the early ’20s to her arrival in Athens, where she cut a dynamic figure within the city’s photographic world, and on to New York, where, in 1966, she finally retired after twenty-seven years of tireless work in the U.S.A.

Nelly's :: Dancers of the Mary Wigman dance school in Dresden, ca. 1923. | Benaki Museum

In this episode of the video series CLOSE UPS Season # 2, Aliki Tsirgialou, Head of the Benaki Museum Photographic Archives, presents the great Greek photographer Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari – better known as Nelly’s– through iconic photos that identified her as one of the leading dance photographers of the interwar period.

Nelly's (Elli Souyoultzoglou-Seraidari) :: The Vereniski Dancing Couple (?), 1924-25. © Benaki Museum | src lifo.gr

Elli Souyoultzoglou-Seraidari (Nelly's) :: Members of the dance of the Oceanids posing in the ancient theater of Delphi, 1927 | src & © Benaki Museum

Elli Souyoultzoglou-Seraidari (Nelly's) :: Miss Charalambidou, 1932-1933 © Benaki Museum / Mosaic

Elly Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (Nelly's) :: Dancer at Franz Fiedler's studio, 1922-1923. From the major exhibition "Nelly's" © Benaki Museum

Elly Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (Nelly’s) :: Dancers of Mary Wigman School in Saxon, Switzerland, 1922-1923. From the major exhibition "Nelly's" © Benaki Museum

Nelly's (Elli Souyoultzoglou-Seraidari) :: «Apteros Nike» evening dress by Tsouchlou, 1938 © Benaki Museum / Photographic Archives / Mosaic