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

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<p>¿Elvis who?¿ was photographer <strong>Alfred Wertheimer</strong>¿s response when, in early <strong>1956</strong>, 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, <strong>Elvis Presley</strong> was¿as we now know¿about to become a legend.<br><br>A fly on the wall in Presley''s presence, <strong>Wertheimer took nearly 3,000 photographs of Elvis </strong>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 <strong>immortalized a young man in the very process of making history</strong>.<br><br><em>Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll</em> 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. <strong>Each chapter is illustrate