Santelli Robert - Alfred Wertheimer. Elvis And The Birth Of Rock And Roll - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Elvis who? was photographer Alfred Wertheimer's response when in early 1956, RC a 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.
Title: Alfred Wertheimer. Elvis And The Birth Of Rock And Roll
Author(s): Santelli Robert, Chris Murray
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836583268
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/25/2022
Category: Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups