US $ 75
UK £ 45

December 2011
Hardcover
Photography


ISBN 13: 978-1-55595-373-7
ISBN: 1-55595-373-5
196 pages
14½ x 9½ in.
36.8 x 24.1 cm.
98 color plates
38 black & white
8-page gatefolds

♦ 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 landscape panorama depicting the center of the base and the Laguna Beach hills 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 three times since then at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, and the University of California Riverside, Sweeney Art Gallery/Culver Center of the Arts.

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.

KTLA: Largest Photograph in the World on Display in Riverside; Dave Malkoff from Hudson Hills Press on Vimeo.