“These artifacts are loaded with subtext that contain the clues to uncovering deeper aspects of Elvis’s character”
-Jeff Scott

Elvis: The Personal Archives
Each year, thousands flock to the Memphis home of Elvis Presley, not only to pay homage, but also to marvel at the artifacts therein – the jeweled jumpsuits, the gold seatbelts of the plane, the jungle room - - all perfectly preserved in the extravagant 1970s time capsule of Graceland. With the cooperation of the Elvis Presley estate, artist Jeff Scott gained unprecedented access to the Elvis’s personal possessions and property to create a complex portrait of the music legend through his belongings. Scott goes beyond the kitsch to resurrect the ultimate American icon, revealing the humanity of Elvis behind the recognizable celebrity veneer. "These artifacts are loaded with subtext that contain clues to uncovering deeper aspects of Elvis’s character." Indeed, Presley’s possessions span between his materialistic persona and his private reality, and Scott’s keen eye for detail takes us on a unique tour through the estate. Elvis’s driver’s license, at once a banal Tennessee document and a charged remainder of the celebrity idol, raises larger questions of identity. The way Scott juxtaposes Elvis’s gun collection and vanity police badges reveals a fundamental rift between Presley’s rebellious reputation and his private obsession with police and authority. The gold bedside telephone, the TV with a bullet hole through the screen, Hai Karate Cologne, his mobile phone and the travel trunk filled with scarves still in their dry-cleaning plastic provide a rare portrayal of Elvis’s inner life, placing the public man in an intimate context. Throughout, Scott explores our complex relationship with modern celebrity culture and the ways in which our possessions and material objects outlive us to tell our story. To schedule an interview with Photographer/ Artist Jeff Scott please contact Workhouse Publicity, publicist Marieke Bianchi directly by telephone 212. 645. 8006 or via email marieke@workhousepr.com

JEFF SCOTT
Jeff Scott is an artist known for his dramatic imagery of America’s historic and cultural landscape. He has exhibited widely in the United States, and his work is in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution, as well as Elvis Presley Enterprises, Disneyland, Polo Ralph Lauren, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Portions of his series based on Elvis’s personal archives were exhibited recently at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.

E.A. CARMEAN, JR.
E.A. Carmean, Jr. is a former curator of twentieth-century art at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and the former director of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. A renowned art historian, Carmean, Jr. is the author of numerous books and catalogues in the visual arts including, Picasso: The Saltimbanques (1980); L’Atelier de Jackson Pollock (1991); Coming to Light: Avery, Gottlieb, Rothko—Provincetown Summers, 1957-1961 (2003); Helen Frankenthaler: A Painting Retrospective (1989); David Smith (1982), Great Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art, 1960 to 1970 (1983); and Bellows: The Boxing Pictures (1982).

Channel Photographics
Channel Photographics is pleased to announce the release of its debut catalogue featuring an array of innovative and exciting photographic books. Whether it’s popular culture, documentary, fine arts or fashion, expect only the finest content combined with outstanding printing and production from our growing list of compelling and collectible titles. We as publishers have an extraordinary track record combining art and commerce. Our list of books underscores the beauty and vibrancy of photography in its diverse genres and varied manifestations. Distributed worldwide, our books can be purchased online, at better bookstores, specialty shops and leading retail chains. For more information please visit www.channelphotographics.com.

James Crump, Founder of Channel Photographics
James Crump is the director of Channel Photographics, an illustrated book publisher based in New York City. He was the founding director and Chief Operating Officer of Arena Editions, a leading publisher of photography books where he acquired and published over fifty titles with leading contemporary and historical figures in the medium including books with Peter Beard, Lynn Davis, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sheila Metzner, Gary Winograd, Walker Evans, Peter Lindbergh, Sante D’Orazio, Richard Misrach, Kenro Izu, Adam Fuss and numerous others. Before that we worked for three years as a consulting editor for Twin Palms Publishers/Twelvetrees Press. Crump holds a Ph.D in art history from the University of New Mexico and has served as a curator of photography for the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University. He is author of F. Holland Day: Suffering the Ideal (1995) and George Platt Lynes: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute (1998), coauthor of When We Were Three: The Travel Albums of George Platt Lynes, Monore Whelle and Glenway Wescott (1998) and Jan Saudek: Realities (2002).

Mandatory Credit Line
Elvis: The Personal Archives by Jeff Scott (Channel Photographics). Elvis, Elvis Presley and Graceland are registered trademarks of Elvis Presely Enterprises, Inc.

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