Alfred Wertheimer. Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll

“Elvis who?” was photographer ’s response when, in early , 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, was—as we now know—about to become a legend. A fly on the wall in Presley's presence, that 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 project . 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. , one of the oldest letterpress print shops in America, which created many early Elvis posters in the 1950s.