• Clara Gutsche (photographer)

View of a display window of the Phillips Tailors store, 350 rue Saint-Antoine Ouest, Montréal, Québec

June 1979

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 17.0 x 12.2 cm sheet: 25.3 x 20.3 cm

PH1980:0627

• exterior view

imprinted - in the image, l.l.: "ADAM'S FORMALS / FOR RENT HERE! [underlined]" [window sign]; "b.: "BUREAU CENTRAL DE LOCATION / ADAM / FORMALS / HEADQUARTERS FOR RENTALS / HABITS DE GALA FORMALS / MARIAGES WEDDINGS / [illeg.] / CONVENTIONS CONVENTIONS / TOUTES OCCASIONS FOR ALL OCCASIONS / DURANT LA JOURNÉE DAYTIME THROUGH / ET LA SOIRÉE TO NIGHTIME WEAR" [window sign]; and l.r.: "ADAMS / TENUES DE GALA / POUR HOMMES LOCATION ICI! [underlined]" [window sign] inscribed, dated and signed - by the photographer, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.c. to u.r.: "Tailleurs Phillips Tailors Inc. / 350 St. Antoine o. [sic] / June 1979" [sideways]; and l.l.: "Clara Gutsche" [diagonally; sideways] imprinted - in grey ink, on the print, verso, throughout: "THIS PAPER / MANUFACTURED / BY KODAK" [diagonally; upside down] inscribed, dated and signed - by the photographer, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.l.: "Tailleurs Phillips Tailors Inc. / 350 St. Antoine o. [sic] / June 1979"; and l.r.: "Clara Gutsche"

Montréal; Québec; Canada;

• architecture

• show-window
• chandelier
• clothing store
• mannequins
• advertisements

© Clara Gutsche