Opening Reception
Free | Open to All

Thursday September 6,
2007
6:00 -- 9:00 p.m.
950 S. Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91105

Project artists: Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Rob Johnson,
Douglas McCulloh, and Clayton Spada.

Arists’ Lecture
Free | Open to All | In the Exhibition Space
Thursday September 20, 2007
7:00 -- 9:00 p.m.

The Great Picture is a history-making gelatin silver photograph three stories high by eleven stories wide. The image was made in the summer of 2006 using a shuttered Southern California F-18 jet hanger transformed into an enormous camera obscura -- the largest camera ever made.

This singular photograph marks the border crossing as we move out of film and into pixels. The image is a marker of change as 168 years of film/chemistry photography gives way to the digital era. The Great Picture was made using the oldest of image technologies -- a camera obscura, discovered by the Chinese and noted by Aristotle. But the image metamorphosed into digital guises immediately. Intense media coverage and hundreds of involved image-makers spread The Great Picture around the globe in pixel form within minutes of completion.

The exhibition at Art Center College of Design, South Campus Wind Tunnel features The Great Picture, along with videos, photographs, and special installations in an environment designed to re-create the dramatic atmosphere within the jet-hanger-as-camera where the world record photograph was made. The Great Picture has been featured in hundreds of publications from art journals such as Art in America, Photographie, Afterimage, and Black & White Magazine to newspapers and periodicals such as the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Der Spiegel, and The Guardian.

More information at: www.legacyphotoproject.com