Edge of Air The Final Days of Mcas El Toro

Laguna Wilderness Press is pleased to announce the June publication of The Edge of Air, a ninety-six-page book presenting the photographs of The Legacy Project, which consists of six Southern California photographers: Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Robert Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, and Clayton Spada. This extensive documentation project, which began in April 2002 and chronicles the controversial shuttered Marine Corps Air Station El Toro located in the heart of Orange County, California on the eve of its transformation into one of the nation's largest metropolitan parks, the Orange County Great Park. The book marks the end of an era and the beginning of a new phase for The Legacy Project, which is committed to continue photographing this extraordinary development in the history of Southern California over the next decade.The elegant and haunting color photographs of The Legacy Project show the fragile beauty of decay and abandonment throughout a once thriving military city. Each artist has brought personal aesthetics to bear in what has the potential to be one of the most comprehensive and extensive photographic documentations ever made. As James Scarborough writes in his essay: "The Legacy Project with prescience and vision, seized upon a unique opportunity to reveal in stark detail a transition-in-progress, a transition of immense historical and future significance for the region, for the state, and for the country."Burchfield, Jerry is the author of 'Edge of Air The Final Days of Mcas El Toro', published 2006 under ISBN 9780972854450 and ISBN 0972854452.