Quote: Originally posted by collegem$ on Oct 22, 2014
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/08/elvis-kiss-201108
“The Kiss”—as the photograph is sometimes called—is in fact the most enduring of the 3,800 exposures that photographer Al Wertheimer made of Elvis Presley, many of the best taken during a two-day period in June 1956. While chronicling the rock prince on the threshold of becoming the King, Wertheimer, then 26, famously caught Elvis on the road and at his home in Memphis with his family and entourage. But that prize frame has become one of the classics in the rock-photography canon: Elvis, in a stairwell at the Mosque Theatre in Richmond, Virginia, minutes before a concert, darting a mischievous tongue toward the deliciously reciprocating mouth of a mysterious girl in black.
Many have compared the picture to another moment snapped 11 years before: Alfred Eisenstaedt’s 1945 “V-J Day in Times Square,” shot for Life, of a sailor and a nurse spontaneously embracing the day World War II ended. But while both images have remained photographic whodunits for decades, nearly 20 people have come forward now and again, purporting to be the subjects in the Times Square shot. In contrast, no one has ever emerged with a legitimate claim as Elvis’s blonde. And with good reason. In the photo, her features are largely obscured. And to make matters more difficult, Elvis, throughout his career, was known to have had scores of dates and trysts with fans and companions.
Method 1: 9-2-8
Method 2: 2-5-8
Method 3: 5-7-6
Method 4: 5-4-4
Method 5: 2-7-7
Method 6: 6-0-1
Method 1: 3-8-0-0
Method 2: 3-1-5-9 flip / 6
Method 3: 9-3-8-9
Method 4: 0-8-6-4
Method 5: 5-6-6-9
Method 6: 0-1-7-2
Famed Elvis photographer Alfred Wertheimer
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/10/21/famed-elvis-photographer-alfred-wertheimer-has-died/17673641/
Priscilla Presley, Elvis' ex-wife, said Tuesday that no photographer was able to get as close up and personal with Elvis ever again.
"Elvis keeps me young," Wertheimer told USA TODAY in an interview in 2010. "Every time I pore over those negatives, I discover something new."