Alfred Wertheimer. Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll - Robert Santelli

AlfredWertheimer. Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll

RobertSantelli

Format: Kitap

Barkod: 9783836583268

Cilt Durumu: Ciltli

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'Elvis who?” wasphotographer Alfred Wertheimer’s response when, in early 1956, an RCA Victorpublicist asked him to photograph an up-and-coming crooner from Memphis. Littledid 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.

Trailing Presleylike a shadow, Wertheimer took nearly 3,000 photographs of Presley 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 Elvisproject immortalized a young man in the very process of making history.

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