Ed Bonja is a wonderful, special gentleman who has honored The Kin of Rock and Roll by allowing us to help sell his famous concert prints of Elvis.

Thank you, Ed! God Bless you.

ELVIS FOR AMERICA LITHO PORTRAIT

Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1945. Ed graduated from California State University, Los Angeles in 1970, majoring in Industrial Arts and French. A year of post-graduate studies culminated in a California Standard Teaching Credential. Ed first met Thomas Parker (not yet ‘Colonel’) in Chicago in the late 1940’s through his uncle, Tom Diskin. The entire Bonja family grew up knowing Tom Parker and his wife, Marie, as Uncle Tom (later Uncle Colonel) and Aunt Marie. While working for the Colonel during the filming of the movie GIRL HAPPY in June of 1964, Ed first met Elvis at a surprise birthday party Elvis gave for the Colonel at MGM Studios in Culver City, California. When Elvis and the Colonel made the decision in 1970 to start doing live concert tours again, the Colonel asked Ed, his brother, Ron, and a couple cousins to come along on the tours and “help out” in any way needed to assure the tours ran smoothly – from loading and unloading equipment from trucks and planes, to selling Elvis Souvenirs at the concerts. The Colonel knew that Ed had just begun studying photography, and he suggested that Ed bring his camera on that first tour in September of 1970 and feel free to take all the pictures he wanted; and that was the start of his taking several thousand photographs of Elvis Presley over the next five years.After completing his college post-graduate work in 1971, Ed went to work on a full-time basis as an assistant to the Colonel and as the Elvis Presley Show Tour Manager and Photographer until April of 1977. During the 1970’s, Ed’s photographs were used for all the souvenir books, posters, buttons and publicity shots that were seen and sold at Elvis Concerts and Las Vegas/Lake Tahoe Engagements. Ed’s first record album cover was ELVIS As Recorded Live At Madison Square Garden, released in June of 1972. His photos appear on the covers of dozens of Elvis’ LP Albums, Single Sleeves and CD’s. In the 1970’s Box Set (THE ESSENTIAL 70’S MASTERS) RCA/BMG used twenty-six of Ed’s photographs; and four of the five cover shots used for the individual CD’s for that set were also Ed’s photos. The remake of Elvis’ MOODY BLUE CD by RCA/BMG features seven of Ed’s photographs. Ed’s photos are famous the world over.

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These beautiful photos and portraits are the work of
Ed Bonja, Elvis' official photographer.

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