{"product_id":"alfred-wertheimer-robert-santelli-9783836583268","title":"Alfred Wertheimer","description":"“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.\n 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 unparalleled in its scope, Wertheimer's Elvis project immortalized a young man in the very process of making history.\nElvis 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.","brand":"Taschen GmbH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49857785397536,"sku":"9783836583268","price":51.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9783836583268.jpg?v=1780674060","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/alfred-wertheimer-robert-santelli-9783836583268","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}