ELVIS AND THE BIRTH OF ROCK AND ROLL

Elvis who? was photographer Alfred Wertheimer's response when, in early 1956, an RCA Victor publicist 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. Trailing Presley like a shadow, Wertheimer took nearly 3,000 photographs of Presley th at year, creating a penetrating portrait of a man poised on the brink of superstardom. Extraordinary in its intimacy and unparallele d in its...[Read more]