Elvis: The Personal Archives [Hardcover]

Jeff Scott (Author), E. A., Jr. Carmean (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2005

With the cooperation of Elvis's estate, this pop-culture collectible creates a complex portrait of the music legend beyond kitsch. The author resurrects Elvis through his possessions, revealing the humanity behind the celebrity veneer.

Editorial Reviews

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 118 pages
• Publisher: Channel Photographics (November 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976670828
• ISBN-13: 978-0976670827
• Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 9.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,076,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Gift, January 24, 2006

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Mike Z (Dallas TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Elvis: The Personal Archives (Hardcover)

I purchased this book a few weeks before Christmas and enjoyed paging through some incredible pictures. I left the book on my coffee table with a few of my other favorite end table books and noted most of my holiday guest opened this book first and great conversation followed. Like my friends, having grown up in the 60's, this book illustrates a bunch of the icons from the era.... super gift for any music fan.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elvis, The Personal Archives. A work of Art!!!!, February 12, 2006

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Russell Howe "Presley Collector" (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Elvis: The Personal Archives (Hardcover)

First as an Elvis fan I love this book. In this book,Jeff Scott brings us places that only a chosen few have gone, behind the walls of Graceland and into archival storage areas to see some of Elvis' personal items. The photos of some of these items are so crystal clear you get the feeling you can almost touch them. He has a way of making you feel your in Elvis' room. For example on page 40 there is a photo of some items from Elvis' Medicine cabinet (Comb,razor,calogne & Hairspray etc.) Well I have never seen "Ultra Control De Pantene" hair spray, but when I look at Jeff's photo of it, I swear I know exactly what it smells like. As a collector of Elvis' personal items I really Dig this book because Jeff shows us items that have been hidden from the general public until now. This is a high quality book. Don't miss it, It is truly a work of art!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Artful and poignant reflection on the King, February 15, 2006

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moiré music - See all my reviews

This review is from: Elvis: The Personal Archives (Hardcover)

A well-designed collection of Elvis Presley imagery. Some are skillfully appropriated collages, some are simply gritty recordings of what was left behind. The author's technique reveals a body of work that embraces the fading and brittle nature of his subjects, sometimes amplifying and augmenting the effects of time on these artifacts. This is not your average Presley memorabilia book, but a thoughtful meditation that artfully illustrates both the boundless legend and peculiar idiosyncrasy of one of the most remarkable American icons.