Alfred Wertheimer. Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll

About the Book: Intimate and close-up: This volume presents over 300 photographs from the legendary portfolio of Alfred Wertheimer, showing the young singer Elvis Presley from Memphis on the verge of stardom.

Biography: Alfred Wertheimer (1929-2014) was born in Germany, came to America as a child and settled in Brooklyn. He was interested in architecture and design from an early age and studied at Cooper Union College in New York, graduating in 1951. Wertheimer's photos, which first gained national recognition after Elvis's death on August 16, 1977, document the metamorphosis of pop music and the cultural change in America.
Robert Santelli is director of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles and former head of the Experience Music Project. He has written over a dozen books and is a writer for magazines such as Rolling Stone.
Chris Murray has organized over 200 exhibitions of leading artists of our time, including Andy Warhol in the seventies and Annie Leibovitz's first exhibition in 1984. He is co-curator of the exhibition Elvis at 21 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and author or editor of more than a dozen books.

Pages: 336
PHOTOGRAPHER
CO AUTHOR
EDITOR: Alfred Wertheimer
Robert Santelli
Chris Murray
First published: 25/05/2022
Book language: Multilingual (English, French, German)
Edition: INT
ISBN: 978-3-8365-8326-8
Topics: Music and Photography
Dimensions: 22.4 cm x 31.6 cm, Weight 2.43 kg

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