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ELVIS The King Le King en devenir French edition Hardcover 1st Edition 2006
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ELvis: A King in the Making Hardcover – 1st Edition 2006 by Alfred Wertheimer (Author), Peter Guralnick (Author).From the Estate of the famous fashion designer Christian Audigier Beverly Hills California.
This volume contains a true treasure trove of spontaneous and completely unrehearsed photographs of The King of Rock n Roll. Elvis both famous pictures and some that have never before been published.In 1956, a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley was at the beginning of his remarkable and unparalleled career and photographer Alfred Wertheimer was asked by Presley’s new label, RCA Victor, to photograph the rising star. With unimpeded access to the young performer, Wertheimer was able to capture the unguarded and everyday moments in Elvis' life during that crucial year. This was a year that took Presley from Tupelo, Mississippi to the silver screen, and to the verge of international stardom and to his coronation as "The King of Rock 'n' Roll.” As Alfred Wertheimer photographed Elvis during 1956, and again in 1958, he created classic images that are spontaneous, unrehearsed and completely without artifice.Wertheimer’s photographs of Elvis are extraordinary and he appears almost ethereal, whether reading a newspaper while waiting for a cab, or washing his hands during one of his many train trips. After 1958 and Elvis’ induction into the army, the world seemingly forgot about Wertheimer’s magical photographs - for nineteen years - until Aug 16, 1977, the day Elvis died and Time Magazine called. “The phone hasn’t really stopped ringing in the last thirty years,” observes Wertheimer.Many of the photographs in this visual treasury are previously unpublished and some have become almost as famous as the man himself.
* Publisher : Chartwell Books 2006
* Language : French Text
* Hardcover : 224 pages
Peter Guralnick is considered to be the most prominent writer in the United States on popular music from the twentieth century. This book contains an impressive collection of candid and unscripted photographs of the legendary Elvis Presley, featuring some of his most famous pictures as well as some that have never been published before.
Ce magnifique beau livre Elvis Le King En Devenir (Elvis At Twenty-One New York To Memphis, 2006), une version française à mettre à l'actif d'un éditeur belge: La Renaissance du Livre, nous montre Elvis sous un jour encore naïf et ingénu; ce qui n'empêche pas le mot «star» de scintiller sur son visage à la beauté presque irréelle, inexplicable.
Alfred Wertheimer
Alfred Wertheimer was born in Germany in 1930, came to America and settled in Brooklyn as a young boy. He took an early interest in architecture and design, which led him to Cooper Union, from which he graduated in 1951. In the spring of 1956, a series of commercial assignments for RCA Records led to a shoot of a newly signed singer named Elvis Presley. Instantly impressed, Wertheimer devoted four months of his own time to intensely shadow the young star. The result would be the most intimate and candid look at the future legend ever recorded.
Peter Guralnick
Peter Guralnick is an award-winning biographer of Elvis Presley and author of Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love. A music critic, screenwriter, and historian of American popular music, he is also the author of Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke.
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