LOGAN SQUARE — The Whistler's latest art installation has pedestrians seeing double.
The cocktail bar, 2421 N. Milwaukee Ave., is paying homage to its neighbor Foto Quetzal with a nearly identical re-creation of the photo and video shop's neighborhood-famous window display.
Arguably the most popular image in Foto Quetzal's window display. [All photos/The Whistler]
Foto Quetzal's window display features dozens of sentimental yet fuzzy portraits.
You know the one — it's the window full of dozens of sentimental yet fuzzy portraits, including one of a half-naked couple in embrace. The strange portraits are so beloved among neighborhood folks that a local guy made a T-shirt using one of the images.
With the installation, dubbed "Double Take," the bar is aiming to highlight photographer and shop owner Tino Quetzal.
"He's a neighborhood institution," the bar wrote on its website. "He’s been in the photo/video business since 1980 and his storefront is arguably the most popular and talked about storefront in the entire neighborhood."
The Whistler's recreation of Foto Quetzal's display
To make the display, The Whistler borrowed some of Quetzal's most iconic images and vintage cameras, and made replicas of his signs.
