Alfred Wertheimer. Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll + nemokamas atvežimas! | knygos.lt

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The King of Rock n Roll is born: The making of Elvis, behind the scenes Elvis who? was photographerAlfred Wertheimer s response when, in early1956, 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 Presleywas as we now know about to become a legend. Trailing Presley like a shadow, Wertheimer took nearly 3,000 photographs of Presleythat 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 projectimmortalized a young man in the very process of making history. Now available as a TASCHEN standard edition, Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Rollcollects 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. Text in English, French, and German