Security

(Photographed at Graceland, Memphis, 2000)

Photo-polymer gravure, edition of 27

32 x 44 inches 

Elvis in his Gold Lame Suit, Ca. 1957. 

Elvis is arriving somewhere – he was always arriving somewhere until he began to isolate himself – surrounded by a group of solemn men, all older and far less handsome that he is; he looks like a prince surrounded by hirelings. Elvis's suit retains a touch of tarnished gold wash, with a uniform band set around the central image to lend a sense of iconic royalty. Elvis’s face expresses remarkable vulnerability and fore-knowledge of someone who understands that he is about to be assassinated and can do nothing about it.

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Tiffany Griffin Hall
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