The Great Picture: Making the World's Largest Photograph

Hardcover in slipcase | 25.4 x 3 x 37.62 cm | 196 pp

Hudson Hills | 2012 | 9781555953737

This beautifully produced book documents the creation of the world's largest photograph by six accomplished photographers- Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Rob Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, and Clayton Spada aka 'The Legacy Project'. Aided by 400 artists, experts, and volunteers, they 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 was 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.