The World’s Largest Photograph August 10, 2007
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I know some people like to enlarge photos of themselves and their cherished offspring to fill a few feet on a wall but what if the photograph was bigger than your entire house, and maybe the ones on either side too?
This is the world’s largest photograph, measuring 28-ft tall and 108-ft wide. It’s of the 5,000-acre Marine Corps Station El Toro, a decommissioned military base that is being converted into hundreds of acres of parkland, museum district, sports complex and thousands of suburban homes in Orange County, California.
To take the world’s biggest photo required the world’s biggest camera – a disused airplane hangar. The team created a massive camera obscura by hanging the canvas - covered in 80-litres of silver halide solution - in the darkened hangar. They then exposed it through an aperture just 1in wide, 15-ft above the ground for 10-days. When done, they developed it in an Olympic sized swimming pool with 600 gallons of developer.
The result: an ancient-looking blurry shot of the airfield and control tower.-Martin Lynch
Editor and Contributor | Martin Lynch
Contributor | Tamlin Magee
Comments
Are you sure this is the biggest? There is a huge advertisement on the side of the Holiday Inn in Liverpool which may be bigger!
@andy - thats different. the ad you're on about would be a print. prints that size usually aren't done in one run, it's usually several stichted together some how.
It may be the biggest but for sure it's the most harmfull to the environment.
Developper is one toxic product (I mean REALLY toxic). 600 gallon of toxic waste for a big picture is certainly a big mistake too.
it says the exposure time was 35mins on their website, not 10days...
It's also misleading to say they developed it in an olympic sized swimming pool, when it was actually something that they constructed themselves that was at best just the *size* of an olympic sized swimming pool.