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Show Page 10 Thursday, December 27, 1979 ( ' 1 4 New Park City Gallery Has Real Status In a symbiotic relationship between a local shutterbug and a national photography gallery chain, Park City has another 'shop de art' to demonstrate its aesthetic bent. Status Gallery, a chain operation of 75 galleries across the nation, has teamed up with Pat McDowell Mc-Dowell of Park City Photo in a new gallery that will offer commercial photography services as well as showcase the work of some of the nation's biggest names in photography. Last week the new gallery, titled Park City Photo Status Gallery, opened its doors to the public in the Holiday Village shopping center. Representing the commercial commer-cial service end of the business will be McDowell, who has in effect expanded his Park City Photo operation, opera-tion, formerly located at the Resort. McDowell says advanced ad-vanced color processing equipment at the new location loca-tion will permit faster quantity quan-tity photo printing of the commercial ski photography that constitutes the bulk of his business. j The local photographer has spent most of his eight years as a professional in Park City, recording the local scene at rugby and softball games, rodeos, and town celebrations. But his real specialty is ski photography. 'McDuck' snow shots have colored the covers and covered the pages of such major publications as Skiing magazine, Powder magazine, maga-zine, Bay Views magazine of San Francisco and the Los Angeles Times. More local recipients of his work include in-clude Park City publications (The Newspaper, Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Skier, Park Record), Re-cord), Utah Powder Guides, Park City Resort, Advanced Reservations, Prospector Sguare Hotel and the Report's Re-port's ski school. He has been asked to shoot promotional pictures for the emergent Deer Valley Ski Resort. Despite such a wide-ranging display of his work, McDowell's Mc-Dowell's affiliation with Status Gallery represents an even greater opportunity to have his work seen nationwide. nation-wide. "Status Galleries have a common photo bank, called the Library of Images, in which I will be able to include slides of my own work," explains McDowell. "This photo bank gives commercial operations a whole library of slide selections selec-tions from which prints can be made to adorn everything from offices to condominiums." condomin-iums." In addition to the photo-bank, photo-bank, McDowell will have a listing in this year's American Ameri-can Showcase photography catalogue, a reference book and directory of commercial photographers that is mailed out to advertisers, art directors direc-tors and publishers across the nation. The listing automatically auto-matically guarantees McDowell Mc-Dowell a shot at being selected to do certain kinds of " photography work for national companies. For example, ex-ample, an advertiser searching search-ing for a photographer to do a 'winter sports scene for an ad would find McDowell's i n Pftcii 7 J f y : "- . s, i '''' 'I JC': I : 5 i i A II I I II name and a representative sample of his work in the catalogue along with such famous ski photographers as Sun Valley's John Terence Turner. "There aren't that many photographers who specialize special-ize in ski shots, only a few are listed in the catalogue," comments McDowell. "Working "Work-ing in Park City gives me certain advantages for ski photography because we have snow conditions that you can't find any place else." Finally, McDowell's gallery connections mean that his work will now "tour" other Status Galleries as a show, adding to his status as a professional and artist. Like the other color display shown by the chain operation, McDuck's work will be put on canvas via a special process unique to Status Galleries. Status Gallery Brian and Charlene Walker hold the Park City franchise of Status Gallery. Charlene also is serving as business agent for McDowell, an arrangement she says allows him to "concentrate on what he is supposed to do shoot pictures." The Walkers have exclusive rights on the chain's unique canvas mounting process in Utah from Salt Lake City south (there is another Status franchise in the Og-den Og-den area). In the canvas mounting, process, color photo images are reproduced repro-duced on stretched canvas, which gives the photograph a rich look especially suitable for interior decorating. Indeed, In-deed, some photographers shoot especially for canvas processing. One such photographer, photo-grapher, who has a few pictures now on1 display at Park City Photo Status Gallery, selects scenes of muted, warm colors to photograph. When reproduced repro-duced on canvas the scenes reflect a look reminiscent of Impressionistic painting. Individuals, designers and decorators can take advantage ad-vantage of the canvas mounting for any color picture they want, whether of their own making or from some professional. Reproduction Repro-duction sizes range from 16 by 20 inches to four by seven feet. The gallery will also do interior design arrangements arrange-ments with the canvas photos pho-tos if the client so desires. Park City Photo Status Gallery will have rotating color and black and white photography shows every four months. The color shows will be canvas-mounted canvas-mounted and will feature artists included in the Library Li-brary of Images. Black and white artists will be of diverse techniques and locations. loca-tions. Some of these shows will come from Light Gallery of New York, an assurance that some of the nation's top names in black and white will be on view here in Park City. As useful as Park City Photo Status Gallery promise pro-mise to be for the designer, commercial company or art collector, it does not intend to ignore the aspiring local amateur camera buff. A smaller version of the Library Li-brary of Images will be collected from local contri-buters contri-buters who want market exposure of their work on a local basis. Additionally, the gallery will help sponsor a number of photo workshops and McDowell is now in the process pf establishing Monday Mon-day and Tuesday night darkroom sessions at the Kimball Art Center. Tentative Tenta-tive cost of the darkroom sessions is five dollars per night, free to KAC members. Other Shops The Holiday Village Shopping Shop-ping Center is filling rapidly with new shops; many are already in and established (Wolfe's, Park City Photo-Status Photo-Status Gallery and Holiday Village Cinema 3). Others that have recently opened their doors or will by mid-January mid-January include: Tommy Knockers, a resort transplant, trans-plant, formerly titled Turquoise Tur-quoise Ltd. ; Capson, Morris, McComb Property Services; McWilly's, a soft ice cream store; a Radio Shack; Park City Furnishings, purveyors of furniture and interior decorations; Printink, formerly for-merly the Copy .Center of Mt. Air Mall; The Finishing Touch, a hardware store featuring interior furnishings furnish-ings such as leaded glass; the Travel House, lately of Holiday Inn location; Western Art Classics gallery; gal-lery; Mama Tony's, a coffee and pizza eatery; and The Soap Opera, a laundromat and dry cleaner. 4 Cartier's Custom Quilts Pillows ' Sachets Weavings Peruvian Imports Wall Hangings Wool Hats VIDEO BAR 649-7087 Closed Tuesdays 357 Main Street Dart Tournament At The End Run $2.00. Entry Fee All monies awarded Play begins Friday Jan. 4th at 8:00 p.m. Do Not Miss New Year's Football At The Run 1 36 Heber Ave. across from Coal & Lumber 1 Indoor Portable Hot Tub ft 5'8"x6'4" $1995 plus tax Includes delivery to your home Fits 4 people comfortably Fully insulated Portable and self contained, just plug into 1 1 0 outlet PARK CITY SPA&TUB 649-8172 750 East Highway 248 P.O. Box 1567 RUSTY NAIL NEW YEAR EVEP Band in Garden Room Disco Upstairs $12.00 per person includes all the Draft Beer, set ups and party favors AETY 'JUBAL' STARTS JANUARY 2nd I I l i H |