The Great Picture: Making the World's Largest Photograph

Dawn Hassett

ISBN 10: 1555953735 / ISBN 13: 9781555953737

Published by Hudson Hills, 2011

About this Item

Oversized oblong format in slipcase. Signed by five of the six photographers on the Legacy Project: Mark Chamberlain; Jacques Garnier; Rob Johnson; Douglas McCulloh; and Clayton Spada. Also signed by Tyler Stallings, the projects director.

Seller Inventory # 101833

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Great Picture: Making the World's Largest Photograph
• Publisher: Hudson Hills
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555953735
• ISBN 13: 9781555953737
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

- The Great Picture is a history-making gelatin silver photograph three stories high by eleven stories wide
- The image was made using a shuttered southern California F-18 jet hanger transformed into an enormous camera obscura—the largest camera ever made

Six accomplished photographers—Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Rob Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, and Clayton Spada—known as The Legacy Project, aided by 400 artists, experts, and volunteers, transformed an abandoned southern California F-18 jet hangar, located at
the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro (MCAS El Toro) in Orange County, into the largest camera ever made and then proceeded to produce the world’s largest photograph, The Great Picture. The image is an enormous panoramic landscape of the California desert beyond the air station, which is
destined to become the heart of the Orange County Great Park.

On July 12, 2006, The Legacy Project unveiled the world's largest photograph at a special reception held inside the world's largest camera. It has been exhibited only twice since then during a short viewing at Art Center College of Design, South Campus Wind Tunnel, Pasadena, California in 2007,
and most recently this past winter at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. However, for the first time, Sweeney Art Gallery/Culver Center’s presentation of The Great Picture will be accompanied by additional components that explore details behind its making and those who made it
possible.

The Legacy Project has shown their work in more than 30 exhibitions in the United States and abroad. The Legacy Project will continue to work through 2017 as El Toro is transformed into the Orange County Great Park.