Elvis is still as popular as ever. If you want a chance to sleep with him you can buy sheets with his likeness starting in September.
If you want to see unseen photos of him in his 20’s, Al Wertheimer has a new $700 coffee table book you can purchase.
I recently saw an exhibit of his work depicting Elvis in his earliest days in 1956 as he was just becoming known.
Although these appeared to be “ordinary” scenes, they have become iconic. Wertheimer shot pictures of Elvis alone in a corner playing the piano, on a train to Memphis and at a soda fountain with a girl who he later kissed seductively.
Art, like life, is about choices. We are given the same scene and subject as others. The perspective through which we tell it, (or the artist chooses to shoot it) is how we express ourselves. It is in choosing the details of what to include and what to leave out that shapes our images. When we tell people our life stories or share the latest event of the day, it is the filter of inclusion and omission that reveals our beliefs, values and feelings.
Through which lens do you tend to shoot your stories?
- Blame or critical
- Victim
- Assuming positive intent
- ___________
Like Wertheimer, how do you take ordinary situations and convey the images? While they may not be on a coffee table or on sheets, they will leave a lasting image.