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Passings: Elvis Photographer Alfred Wertheimer Dies at 84

By David Schonauer   Thursday October 23, 2014

Alfred Wertheimer, the photographer who captured Elvis Presley on the precipice of life-changing fame in a series of remarkably intimate black-and-white photos, died on Sunday at the age of 84, notes Vanity Fair. It was in 1956 that Wertheimer, then 26, got a call from an RCA publicist asking if …

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