The Great Picture

The Great Picture in its pinhole camera hangar.
Orthorectified negative (top) and positive (bottom) representations of the photograph, partially obscured by two people.

As of 2011, The Great Picture (111 feet (34 m) wide and 32 feet (9.8 m) high) holds the Guinness World Record for the largest print photograph, and the camera with which it was made holds a record for being the world's largest.[1] The photograph was taken in 2006 as part of the Legacy Project, a photographic compilation and record of the history of Marine Corps Air Station El Toro as it is being transformed into the Orange County Great Park. The project used the abandoned F-18 hangar #115 at the closed fighter base in Irvine, California, United States, as the world's largest pinhole camera. The aim was to make a black-and-white negative print of the Marine Corps air station with its control tower and runways, with the San Joaquin Hills in the background. The photograph was unveiled on July 12, 2006, during a reception held in the hangar and was exhibited for the first time at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, on September 6, 2007.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Guinness Certifies World's Largest Photograph and Camera". PR Newswire, United Business Media, July 13, 2006. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
  2. ^ "Culver Center of the Arts – The Great Picture". Retrieved September 12, 2011.
  3. ^ Liz Goldner. “Riverside, CA: Creating ‘The Great Picture,’” Art Ltd, Woodland Hills, CA, September 2011.

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