Elvis: The Early Years

Alfred Wertheimer, began his career as a photojournalist in 1951, publishing work in such magazines as "Life" and "Colliers." His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Experience Music Project (Seattle, Washington) and the Folkwang Museum (Essen, Germany). He has photographed such notables as Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonard Bernstein, and Elizabeth Taylor, and worked as a principal cameraman for the documentary "Woodstock." Chris Murray, founder and director of Govinda Gallery in Washington, D.C., has organized more than two hundred exhibitions of many leading artists and edited a number of books on music and photography. Since 1995, Murray has featured Wertheimer's work in several exhibitions, including his first major one-person exhibition in 1997 at Govinda Gallery and the exhibition "Artist to Icon: Early Photographs of Elvis, Dylan, and the Beatles," organized in conjunction with the Experience Music Project in 2001. Peter Guralnick is America's foremost writer of music biographies. In a career spanning over thirty years, Guralnick has written extensively about American music and musicians, including the two-volume, prize-winning Presley biography, "Last Train to Memphis" (1994) and "Careless Love" (1997).