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Elli Seraidari (known as Nelly's) is by far the most famous Greek photographer of all time. She was born in Aidini of Asia Minor Asia (link here) and after 1922 she went to study photography in Germany. Her teachers were the most famous German photographers of the era. In 1924 she came to Greece where she opened her studio. From 1927 until the outbreak of World War II Nelly's travelled throughout Greece, documenting the entire panorama of Greek life. Nelly's went to the opening of the 1939 World exposition of New York where the Greek pavillion hosted a big collage of her photographs and stayed there as a self exiled artist when the NAZIs invaded and occupied Greece in 1941. She returned to Athens 27 years later. Nelly's received numerous international awards (in Brussels, Canada,
Stockholm, Paris etc). Perhaps her most famous work are the nude photographs of the Russian ballet dancer Nicolska in Parthenon of Acropolis (1920s) and the cover of Life Magazine (December 16, 1940). Nelly's also took a lot of childrens portraits in her studios in Athens and New York. She also photographed a lot of
boys working as shepherds in rural Greece. One of her most important album is the one with the life of refugees (mainly the children) of Asia Minor in Greece (1925). Nelly's left a body of work which remains exemplary from both an artistic and a technical viewpoint and which represents a valuable legacy to the photographers of today.
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