A privileged witness to the Montreux Jazz Festival since its inception in 1967, Edouard Curchod has documented every single edition. From Leonard Cohen to B.B. King, by way of Santana or Prince, his reportages lead us into the intimacy of the wings, where Miles Davis might be seen sketching the festival’s next poster, or allow us to behold the legendary sight of Keith Haring painting his "dancing men" upon the Montreux Tourist Office's Land Rover.
Edouard Curchod is also renowned throughout the region for his gracious welcome to private individuals who entrust him with their photographs: their great-grandfathers' albums, nineteenth-century glass plates, or stereoscopic views crafted for the earliest tourists. Furthermore, his mission encompasses the preservation of records from local industries and defunct newspapers, thereby rescuing them from oblivion. Thus, one may discover a polar expedition from 1880 alongside rare archives from the Ateliers de Construction Mécanique de Vevey.
300 pages
21 x 27
ISBN 978-2-940519-81-1
CHF 45.00 | € 50.00 | £ 45.00