In the vast history of twentieth-century photography, two Alfreds stand out for the way they captured the essence of their time: Alfred Eisenstaedt, the German-born émigré whose elegant eye helped define Life magazine’s golden era, and Alfred Wertheimer, the Brooklyn-based photographer whose intimate portraits of a young Elvis Presley gave the world its first candidContinue reading “The Two Alfreds: Eisenstaedt and Wertheimer”
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Elvis Never Left the Building!
This may seem a little kitsch, but we love Elvis Presley at MWOI HQ!
-It was not always that way, I can assure you. I grew up in a household where Elvis was frowned upon as very much not the sort of cultural icon we, as intellectually minded high class individuals, embraced.
My World of Interiors 