"Rock 'n' Roll." . . . . "Photographie." . . "Porträtfotografie" . . "Hatch Show Print (Firm)," . . "Hatch Show Print (Firm)" . "Rock music History." . . "Rock music." . . . . . . . . . "\"\"Elvis who?\" was photographer Alfred Wertheimer's response when, in early 1956, 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 Presley was -- as we now know -- about to become a legend. Trailing Presley like a shadow, Wertheimer took nearly 3,000 photographs of Presley 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.... [this book] 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.\"--Provided by publisher." . . . . . "History" . . . . . . "Elvis and the birth of rock and roll" . "Elvis and the birth of rock and roll"@en . . . . . . "Bildband" . "Pictorial works"@en . "Pictorial works" . . . . . "Elvis and the birth of Rock and Roll" .