Jerry Burchfield

American, 1947 - 2016

BiographyBorn July 28 1947 in Chicago. He recived bachelor's, master's in art and master of fine arts degrees from Cal State Fullterton. He wrote several books about photography and recived a National Endownment for the Arts felloship in 1981. His work has been exhibited in the U.S., Europe, and Japam.

Burchfield was a photographer and educator who helped document the evolution of two Orange County landmarks. A professor and photography gallery director at Cypress College since 1987. From 1973 to 1987 Burchfield co-owned BC Space Gallery in Laguna Beach with Mark Chamberlain. Burchfield and Chamberlain began tracing the life in the canyon, including taking photos the length of Laguna Canyon Road. Thousands of photos -- many donated by others -- were compiled into a huge mural they called "The Tell," which referred to an archaeological term about a core sampling that tells the earth's geological history. In November 1979, an estimated 7,000 people marched through the canyon to the mural as part of a protest over plans to build more than 3,000 homes. In 2002, Burchfield and chamberlain started photographing the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. With fiuve other photographers working on the LEgacy Project at the old base, Burchfield created what is believed to be the world's largest functioning pinhole camera obscura and the world's largest photograph, one of the thousands taken to document the transition from Marine base to park.

(http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-me-jerry-burchfield20-2009sep20-story.html, http://www.legacyphotoproject.com/portfolio_page/jerry-burchfield/#1)

Person TypeIndividual