Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
General material designation
- Multiple media
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
Level of description
Repository
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
-
? - 2007 (Creation)
- Creator
- Gubbay, Aline, 1920-2005
Physical description area
Physical description
1.2m of multiple media
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Photographer, art historian and writer, Aline Gubbay was born on June 20th, 1920 in Alexandria, Egypt. In 1924, she and her family moved to England. She won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1935. Following her father's advice, she chose later to study photography privately under the tutelage of photographer Germaine Kanova in London, England. Under Kanova, Gubbay became a well-known portrait photographer. In 1948, she married Eric Gubbay and moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She had three children, Sharon, Michelle and Diana. In 1956, the Gubbay family moved to Montreal where she earned a degree in Social Work at McGill University and later, a Master's degree in Art History in 1978 from Concordia University. She taught Art History at the Visual Arts Centre and Costume History at Lasalle College. She was also president of the Westmount Historical Society. She wrote several books and newspaper articles which she illustrated with her own photographs. Her material was exhibited at Victoria Hall and at the Westmount Public Library. Aline Gubbay died in 2005 of pancreatic cancer.
Custodial history
Scope and content
The fonds documents Aline Gubbay's personal life and her career as a photographer.
The fonds contains correspondence and biographical documents such as a birth certificate, a wedding certificate, a will, a contract and diaries. Additional personal material includes a sketch, a drawing and photographs concerning Aline Gubbay and her family.
The fonds also includes professional documents such as schedules, notebook, costume design sketches, contact sheets, negatives, slides and photographs. Many of the photographs are Gubbay's own work, including "A Street Called the Main" and "Canadian Architecture in the 19th Century: a Selective Bibliography". Other photography subjects include images of architecture found in Montreal and Westmount.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Arrangement
Language of material
- English
- Hebrew
Script of material
- Hebrew
- Latin
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
Public access to file [6]: letters written by Germaine Kanova to Aline Gubbay is available from January 1st, 2029.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Copyright restrictions may apply.
Finding aids
Generated finding aid
Associated materials
Accruals
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number
Standard number
Access points
Subject access points
Name access points
Genre access points
Control area
Description record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules or conventions
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Fonds contains contact sheets and photographic negatives which are not described in AtoM.