PHOTOGRAPHER FINDS ELVIS!

• Photographer finds Elvis! – Madison Square Garden's longtime official photographer, George Kalinsky, has discovered about forty new good concert shots of Elvis on rolls of negs he took at the Garden in 1972! In a scenario familiar to many of us, when he worked the '72 concert he felt he only got a few good shots – but on reviewing the rolls 35 years later, was surprised how many other great iconic images of the King were on them! [expand story >>>]

Kalinsky was asked to go through his old files by Graceland (Elvis Presley Enterprises) after he contacted them for permission to use an unpublished shot for a billboard campaign, "Great Moments in New York". This image, showing a caped and jump-suited Elvis, arms outstretched (in a moment that makes him appear almost a messianic superhero), is currently displayed on a billboard above the Virgin MegaStore in Times Square. Kalinsky turned up four more rolls of film from Elvis's second night performance at Madison Square Garden (December, 1972) after Graceland asked him to look see had he any more! Elvis Presley Enterprises will take the pick of the new images, and put them to good use in displays and exhibitions in Graceland. [add comment]