• Clara Gutsche (photographer)

View of a display window of the S. Gerstel clothing store showing an overcoat, fashion catalogues and posters and the reflection of buildings across the street, corner of avenue du Parc and rue Fairmount Ouest, Montréal, Québec

April 1978

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 17.1 x 12.2 cm sheet: 25.2 x 20.3 cm

PH1980:0629

• exterior view

imprinted and dated - in the image, c.r.: "Fur Week in Canada / September 20th to 26th, 1976" [poster in the window]; l.l.: "FAIT FUREUR" [poster in the window]; and l.r.: "DENMARK" [vertically; poster in the window] signed, inscribed and dated - by the photographer, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.r.: "Clara Gutsche" [sideways]; and l.r.: "S. Gerstel / av. du Park [sic] & Fairmont [sic] / April 1978" [sideways] 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.: "S. Gerstel / av. du Park [sic] à Fairmont [sic] / April 1978"; and l.r.: "Clara Gutsche" [diagonally]

Montréal; Québec; Canada;

• architecture

• show-window
• clothing store
• mannequin
• posters
• advertisements
• catalogues

© Clara Gutsche