(Photo by Alfred Wertheimer) The First of Elvis (article slideshow) I became a fly on the wall. …I had trained myself along the lines of available-light photography. Later on, I coined a phrase, because I got beyond available-light photography to available-darkness photography. … My feeling was that the darker you can get a decent photograph—I mean in a dark enough place—the closer you’ll get to the real personality. - Alfred Wertheimer What I like about this article is that it doesn’t devolve into an Elvis bio or any nonsense about blah blah Young Elvis. It’s about the photographer and his photographs (and a wee bit about his camera). Photography is the subject; that the photos are of Elvis is of course why it’s published but still somehow secondary.

(Photo by Alfred Wertheimer)

The First of Elvis (article slideshow)

I became a fly on the wall. …I had trained myself along the lines of available-light photography. Later on, I coined a phrase, because I got beyond available-light photography to available-darkness photography. … My feeling was that the darker you can get a decent photograph—I mean in a dark enough place—the closer you’ll get to the real personality.

- Alfred Wertheimer

What I like about this article is that it doesn’t devolve into an Elvis bio or any nonsense about blah blah Young Elvis. It’s about the photographer and his photographs (and a wee bit about his camera). Photography is the subject; that the photos are of Elvis is of course why it’s published but still somehow secondary.

3 Jan 2010   1 note   [ photography vanity fair ]
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