{"product_id":"elvis-and-the-birth-of-rock-and-roll","title":"Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nA 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nEdition: Multilingual (Text in English, French, and German)","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48300569428261,"sku":"TA1539","price":53.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/3179\/3701\/files\/TA1539_3d1662ea-d4fe-4ef2-b2ef-53f5547317a4.jpg?v=1764612513","url":"https:\/\/allthebookswelove.com\/products\/elvis-and-the-birth-of-rock-and-roll","provider":"Allthebookswelove","version":"1.0","type":"link"}