• Clara Gutsche (photographer)

View of the windows of the restaurant at 4248 rue Saint-Denis showing the reflection of buildings across the street, Montréal, Québec

September 1978

Gelatin silver print

composition: 12.2 x 17 cm sheet: 20.4 x 25.3 cm (8 1/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

PH1980:0623

• exterior view

imprinted - in the image, c.r.: "PATATES FR[ITES]" [on window]; l.c.: "VACANCES / FERMÈ / MERCY" [sic; window sign]; "BAR SALON / DANSE DISCO" [twice; backwards; reflection in the window]; "SOIREE / RETRO / DISCO / MARDI SOIR" [twice; backwards; reflection in the window]; "REPARONS / POELES / FRIGIDAIRES / LAVEUSES" [backwards; reflection in the window]; "LAVEUSE / 2 38.00 / FRIGIDAIRE / 2 38.00" [backwards; reflection in the window]; and "AU / BAR D'ELLE / DANSEUSES NUES" [twice; backwards; reflection in the window] signed, inscribed and dated - by the photographer, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.l.: "Clara Gutsche" [diagonally]; and u.r.: "Vacances fermé / 4248 St. Denis [sic] / Sept. 1978" imprinted - in grey ink, on the print, verso, throughout: "THIS PAPER / MANUFACTURED / BY KODAK" [diagonally; sideways] inscribed, dated, and signed - by the photographer, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.l.: "Vacances fermé / 4248 St. Denis [sic] / Sept. 1978"; and l.r.: "Clara Gutsche" [diagonally]

Montréal; Québec; Canada;

• architecture

• windows
• apartment houses
• signs
• restaurant
• repair shop
• bars (commercial buildings)

© Clara Gutsche