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Le Royal Monceau Raffles Paris

A tribute to the famous singer in an exclusive exhibition

From Tuesday 5 to Saturday 16 November 2024, on the occasion of Paris Photo 2024 and to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Ray Charles (10 June 2004), author and composer Arlette Kotchounian is offering an exclusive exhibition of her photographic work on Ray Charles, including never-before-seen prints from the artist’s stays at Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris.

Arlette Kotchounian
Born in Paris, she divides her time between Paris and Los Angeles. Her defining relationship with music began in the clubs of Saint Germain des Prés. A songwriter since the 60s, from jazz to French and international song, she has lived her life to the rhythm of her encounters. It was in 1976 that she felt the need to record the precious moments she spent with her musician friends, both on stage and backstage: Claude Nougaro, Gilberto Gil, Miles Davis, Keith Jarret. She wrote several songs for Ray Charles. Photographing him becomes an extension of an experience rich in music, images and emotions.

Le Royal Monceau Raffles Paris

Ray Charles intime

At Le Royal Monceau - Raffles Paris, in the Suite that bears his name, five never-before-seen photographs of Ray Charles, taken by Arlette Kotchounian, embody the presence and aura of this giant of American music within the very walls where he stayed during his visits to France.

At once historical documents and personal memories, Arlette Kotchounian's five photographs are imbued with a complicity and tenderness that is underlined by the grain and texture of the black and white images. We are introduced to the musician's daily life, privileged spectators of moments of rest or reflection, through photographs that, beneath their apparent simplicity, are governed by a composition of great rigour.
White Shirt IV (1985) reveals this attention to framing, light and balance of form; the close-up brings Ray Charles so close that he seems familiar.

In this vision of an intimate Ray Charles, the suitcase on the unmade bed (Flight case, 1985) introduces a beautiful continuity between the space of the photograph and the exhibition space that is Suite 714: a place of living, but also a place of passage, the bedroom is a private, secret world that is open to us, and Arlette Kotchounian's images are so many doors that lead us there.

But it is also, and perhaps above all, a story of musicians that these images tell us: the pianist's hands suspended above the keyboard (Hands Ill, 1997) are the perfect expression of the dialogue between sound and image that dominates Arlette Kotchounian's work. The movement that animates them is musical, a living rustle, paradoxical in the image: fixed and yet very present. In the same way, the photograph Loving you (1983) reveals the score of the song 'I can't stop loving you' in a remarkably controlled chiaroscuro. The photographer's art of nuance is undoubtedly the strongest echo of the subtlety of the genius's melodies.

+33 (0)1 42 99 88 00

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37 avenue Hoche

75008 Paris

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+33 (0)1 42 99 88 00

paris@raffles.com

37 avenue Hoche

75008 Paris

France

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