ELVIS AND THE BIRTH OF ROCK AND ROLL BY ALFRED WERTHEIMER
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ELVIS AND THE BIRTH OF ROCK AND ROLL BY ALFRED WERTHEIMER

SANTELLI, ROBERT

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TASCHEN
Año de edición:
2026
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ISBN:
978-3-8365-9708-1
Páginas:
192
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“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 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.


«¿Qué Elvis?» fue lo que preguntó el fotógrafo Al Wertheimer cuando a comienzos de 1956 un publicista de RCA Victor le pidió que tomase algunas instantáneas de la nueva sensación llegada desde Memphis. Wertheimer no podía sospechar que aquel sería el encargo de su vida: con apenas 21 años, Elvis Presley, como sabemos ahora, estaba a punto de convertirse en leyenda.

Pegado a él como su sombra, aquel año Wertheimer tomó cerca de 3.000 fotografías y creó así el incisivo retrato de un hombre al borde del estrellato más rutilante. De una intimidad y extensión incomparables, el proyecto de Wertheimer inmortalizó a un joven que se disponía a hacer historia.

Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll reúne las imágenes más destacables de la estrella de entre las tomadas en aquel año mágico de 1956, así como una selección de su histórica colección de fotos de 1958, cuando fue trasladado a una base militar en Alemania. Cada capítulo está ilustrado con un cartel original creado para este libro por Hatch Show Print, una de las imprentas tipográficas más antiguas de Estados Unidos donde se crearon muchos de aquellos tempranos carteles de Elvis de la década de 1950.

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