Product Details Hardcover 118 pages Channel Photographics LLC Published 2005 Book Description
With the cooperation of Elvis’ estate, respectful of his legacy, and designed as an amazing pop-culture artifact itself, this is the ultimate Elvis collectible. Jeff Scott had unprecedented access to Elvis’ personal possessions and property, and the cooperation of Graceland, to create a complex portrait of the music legend beyond kitsch. He resurrects Elvis through his possessions, revealing the humanity behind the celebrity veneer, including:
* Elvis’ gold bedside telephone
* the TV with a bullet hole through the screen
* his mobile phone
About the Author
Jeff Scott is known for his dramatic imagery of America’s historic and cultural landscape and his work is in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, Disneyland, Ralph Lauren, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
E.A. Carmean, Jr., the art historian, includes among his booksGreat Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art, 1960 to 1970. |