中文简介：

在这里，你可以近距离接触猫王。这套作品汇集了艾尔弗雷德·韦特海默（Alfred Wertheimer）拍摄的300多张猫王照片。这些照片的亲密程度和范围都是无与伦比的，它们让一个正在创造历史的年轻人永垂不朽。

摇滚之王诞生了

猫王诞生的幕后花絮

1956年初，当美国广播唱片公司的宣传人员要求他拍摄一位来自孟菲斯的新晋歌星时，摄影师艾尔弗雷德·韦特海默（Alfred Wertheimer）的反应是“谁是埃尔维斯？”。韦特海默不知道这将是他一生的工作。年仅21岁的埃尔维斯·普雷斯利（Elvis Presley），正如我们现在所知道的那样，即将成为一个传奇。

韦特海默像影子一样跟着埃尔维斯，在那一年拍摄了近3000张埃尔维斯的照片，为一个即将成为巨星的人创造了一幅深刻的肖像。韦特海默的猫王项目以其非凡的亲密性和无与伦比，让一个正在创造历史的年轻人成为不朽的人物。

本书收集了韦特海默在那神奇的一年中拍摄的猫王照片，以及他在1958年拍摄猫王被派往德国驻军基地的历史性照片。每一章都附有一张由Hatch Show Print公司制作的海报，该公司是美国最古老的凸版印刷店之一，它在20世纪50年代制作了许多早期的猫王海报。

摄影家

艾尔弗雷德·韦特海默（Alfred Wertheimer，1929-2014）出生于德国，年少时移民美国并在布鲁克林定居。韦特海默的摄影作品在1977年8月16日猫王去世后首次获得全国关注，捕捉到了流行音乐的蜕变和美国的文化转型。

编辑

克里斯·默里（Chris Murray）为我们这个时代的许多领先艺术家组织了200多个展览，从1970年代的安迪·沃霍尔（Andy Warhol）到1984年安妮·莱博维茨（Annie Leibovitz）的首次展览。他是史密森尼博物馆“猫王21岁”展览的联合策展人，创作并编辑了十几本书。

撰稿人

罗伯特·桑特利（Robert Santelli）是格莱美博物馆的执行董事和体验音乐项目的前CEO/艺术总监。他创作了了近十几本书，也是《滚石》等杂志的撰稿人。

艾尔弗雷德·韦特海默：猫王与摇滚的诞生

艾尔弗雷德·韦特海默，克里斯·默里，罗伯特·桑特利

精装，22.4 x 31.6厘米，2.37公斤，336页

ISBN 978-3-8365-8326-8

语言版本：英语、法语、德语

英文简介：

Find yourself up close and personal with the King. This collection brings together over 300 photographs of Elvis from the legendary portfolio of Alfred Wertheimer. Extraordinary in their intimacy and unparalleled in scope, these pictures immortalize a young man in the very process of making history.

The King of Rock 'n' Roll is born

The making of Elvis, behind the scenes

"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.

Elvis 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.

The photographer

Alfred Wertheimer (1929-2014) was born in Germany, emigrated to America and settled in Brooklyn as a young boy. Wertheimer's photographs, which first gained national attention after Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977, capture the metamorphosis of pop music and the cultural transformation of America.

The editor

Chris Murray has organized over 200 exhibitions of many of the leading artists of our time, from Andy Warhol in the 1970s to Annie Leibovitz's first exhibition in 1984. He is co-curator of the Smithsonian Institution's exhibition Elvis at 21 and is the author or editor of over a dozen books.

The contributing author

Robert Santelli is the executive director of the Grammy Museum and former CEO/artistic director of the Experience Music Project. He is the author of nearly a dozen books and a contributor to magazines such as Rolling Stone.

Alfred Wertheimer. Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll

Alfred Wertheimer, Chris Murray, Robert Santelli

Hardcover, 22.4 x 31.6 cm, 2.37 kg, 336 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-8326-8

Multilingual Edition: English, French, German