In her “Shop window” series started in 1981, Tania Mouraud investigates the documentary potential of photography much like Eugène Atget once did. Diligently following the recommended tourist trails in the Paris Michelin Guide, she becomes Catherine B., a fictional character freed from her family related responsibilities, who strolls the streets, capturing, until she is sick of them, the many moonstruck pierrots, kitsch statuettes and other trinkets that adorn the shop windows on the great Parisian boulevards. Somewhere between the display of ordinary objects and the negative portrait of city life, this series of photographs documents the signs of consumption and depicts the “less than glorious” side of tourism. Mouraud above all wanted to compile a sort of inventory “à la Perec”, from a cynical yet admirative point of view.