Alfred Wertheimer. Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll

“Elvis who?” was photographer Alfred Wertheimer‘s response when, in early 1956, RCA Victor asked him to photograph an up-and-coming crooner from Memphis. Little did Wertheimer know that this would be the job of his life: just 21 years old, Elvis Presley was–as we now know–about to become a legend.

A fly on the wall in Presley’s presence, Wertheimer took nearly 3,000 photographs of Elvis that year, creating a penetrating portrait of a man poised on the brink of superstardom. Extraordinary in its intimacy and unparalleled in its scope, Wertheimer’s Elvis project immortalized a young man in the very process of making history.

Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll collects Wertheimer’s most remarkable Elvis shots from that magical year, along with a selection of his historic 1958 pictures of the star being shipped off to an army base in Germany. Each chapter is illustrated with a poster by Hatch Show Print, one of the oldest letterpress print shops in America, which created many early Elvis posters in the 1950s.

Author: Robert Santelli
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Taschen
Published: 05/25/2022
Pages: 336
Weight: 5.51lbs
Size: 12.68h x 9.29w x 1.42d
ISBN: 9783836583268
Language: English

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