Alfred Wertheimer. Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll BookThe Most Intimate Portrait of Elvis Ever Captured In early 1956, photographer Alfred Wertheimer was handed an assignment he almost turned down. "Elvis who?" was his response when an RCA Victor publicist asked him to photograph an up and coming singer from Memphis. What followed was the job of a lifetime. Trailing a 21 year old Elvis Presley like a shadow, Wertheimer took nearly 3,000 photographs over the course of that extraordinary year capturing a