How photographing Montreux went from lax to exact

In over three decades of photographing the Montreux Jazz Festival, two Swiss photographers have amassed thousands of images of the world’s greatest musicians. But times and technology have drastically changed the job. Miles Davis was sitting naked in his backstage dressing room at the Montreux Jazz Festival. At the same moment, freelance photographer Edouard Curchod walked past the half-open door. As the legendary trumpeter’s eyes met his, Curchod stammered an embarrassed apology. To the photographer’s surprise, Davis, who was in Montreux for the fifth time, invited him in and asked: “What did you think of my concert?” When Curchod replied that his English was not rich enough to express his emotion, Davis thanked him and invited him to take photos. Curchod captured the star from above the waist in that rare, intimate moment when he was unwinding alone. It was 1988 and Curchod’s eighth year photographing the festival. In 1980, the photographer based in …
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